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On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 23:43 +0000, Duncan wrote: |
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> Umm... last I heard he had "gone walkabout", simply disappearing, and |
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> nobody seemed to know what happened to him. That was days ago and some |
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> of the other devs are trying to fill in, with mixed results as no one has |
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> his knowledge of the area yet. People are worried, as he didn't resign |
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> or anything, just no communication at all, for days. |
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> There's a thread on the dev list asking for clarification of metadata.xml |
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> maintainer's policy as a result. But the thread is I believe a couple |
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> days old now with no more input. Maybe he's back? |
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> I must confess I'm a bit worried too. |
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That is worrysome. People who are hurt, are incapacitated or who pass |
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away, just drop offline without a word. I've seen this before. I've |
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gotten crosswise of Jakub on the bugs database and he runs it as a |
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pretty tight ship, but it's obvious that he does a _great_ deal of |
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absolutely necessary work and by and large does a fine job. |
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Surely someone with the Gentoo Project has physical stats on his |
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whereabouts such as a phone number and/or snail-mail address. |
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