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On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 03:46:47AM +0100, Jakub Moc wrote: |
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> Bryan Østergaard napsal(a): |
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> > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:31:56PM +0000, Hubert Mercier wrote: |
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> >> What is more, even if Gentoo is always growing, why are people leaving ? |
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> >> Personal reasons ? No, in fact I read carefully each of the retire mails |
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> >> in the last year : very often people are just fed up with conflicts, |
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> >> tired of people just slacking around, etc.. Are these last counted in |
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> >> "growing dev base" ? IMHO, Gentoo need a large rethinking of its internal |
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> >> structure, and, what is more, a rethinking of its recruitement process. |
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> >> But I remember that this point has already been discussed ? |
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> >> |
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> > Please don't base your entire opinion on those very few retirement |
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> > announcements you've seen. Most devs that retire simply run out of time |
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> > for gentoo due to real life commitments etc. or move on to other open |
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> > source projects. |
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> > |
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> > Regards, |
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> > Bryan Østergaard |
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> |
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> OK, let me get this straight... You are suggesting here that we are not |
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> losing enough developers for devrel/userrel to be bothered enough to |
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> start caring about WTH is going wrong here? |
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Not at all. But don't bother to read what I actually said. I'm sure that |
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would be way too much effort on your part. |
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> |
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> Sure, after Flameeyes left we have pam + alsa pretty much unmaintained, |
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> we've lost a key KDE + sound apps developer + BSD lead; next we've lost |
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> metalgod who was a member of already pretty understaffed Gnome herd, one |
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> of 3 members of media-optical herd and sounds apps maintainer as well. |
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> Then a developer and founder of this distribution who rejoined just |
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> about a week ago ran away, scared when seeing the state of things. |
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> That's just for the past month. |
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> |
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> And you come here to tell us that people shouldn't get confused by these |
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> 'very few' retirements, that the sun in still shining nicely and we are |
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> recruiting people as always? And that you will continue silently |
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> watching the trolls team associated around mips and ciaranm call people |
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> fuckheads, idiots and making a gutter of something that's supposed to be |
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> a development mailing list? |
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Never said anything like that. |
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> |
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> Ugh... well done. |
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And you grabbed the chance to completely distort what I'm saying once |
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again. Well done indeed. |
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Regards, |
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Bryan Østergaard |
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