Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-dev vs lkml?

[Ferris McCormick]

On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 00:35 +0000, George Prowse wrote:
> Ferris McCormick wrote:
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> > On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:30:32 -0500
> > Steev Klimaszewski <steev@g.o> wrote:
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> >> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> >> <snip>
> >>
> >>>> Personally I understand why flameeyes took that to bugzilla; how else
> >>>> could he say he'd gone thru the appropriate channels? Devrel (a
> >>>> group, not an individual) weren't set up to respond quickly as others
> >>>> have informed us all.
> >>>>
> >>> Case in point: you need to distinguish between flameeyes leaving (again)
> >>> as a publicity stunt because his attempt to blackmail devrel failed and
> >>> flameeyes' stated reason for leaving...
> >>>
> >>>
> >> <snip>
> >>
> >> It was an ultimatum.  He goes or I go, it was not blackmail.  FFS, can
> >> we please stop calling it blackmail?
> >>
> >
> > As I recall, flameeyes made the statement to kloeri, and kloeri called
> > it blackmail.  Whatever you call it, in business, issuing such an
> > ultimatum is one of the quickest ways to become unemployed.
> So you'd rather let one of the best employees go rather than chastise a
> worker who is leaving soon? Thats just cutting off your nose to spite
> your face.
>

You misunderstand.  The analogy is that I walk into my boss's office and
say "Fire Joe or I'm gone", in which case I can expect to be gone one
way or the other.

> It's good to see it has only taken 3 or is it 4 or 5 devs to leave
> before anyone thinks about doing something.
>
> George
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o>
Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc)