On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:48:09 +0000
Daniel Drake <dsd@g.o> wrote:

> If any other developers from that "era" would like to weigh in and 
> clarify/correct/disagree with any of the below, feel free - I know that 
> there are others around who have more of a picture than I do.

[...]

> A common complaint was that Daniel kept starting projects and making 
> movements and then not following through. I witnessed this first hand 
> where after admitting a huge backlog of issues that only he could work 
> on, he went on to propose that Gentoo Technologies spin off another 
> company, a co-operative to provide services around Gentoo or something 
> like that.

Another, probably clearer example is portage-NG, which never left the
vaporware stage and IMHO caused some complications wrt portage
development in 2003/2004 as many things were slated to be "something
for portage-NG" by Daniel, therefore not implemented back then and
harder to implement when we finally realized that portage-NG would
never exist (though we probably should have known better when we heard
the plans which were quite ... interesting).

Marius
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