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From: "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-core@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Tears of unfathomable sorrow
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 17:42:51
Message-Id: 461928CD.5040903@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Tears of unfathomable sorrow by Alec Warner
1 Hi.
2
3 Alec Warner wrote:
4 > Much to the joy of many I am now retiring from Gentoo. I've already done
5 > most of the work (sorry to burden you kloeri I think just the tree-bits
6 > are left).
7 >
8
9 I, for one, have no joy in seeing you leave.
10
11 > Many will wonder why; but this has been a while in coming. I don't get
12 > along with many like I used to and in many cases I don't find myself
13 > agreeing with the direction of things. Those who know me know I always
14 > bitched about how I didn't do enough for Gentoo and that too is a reason
15 > for leaving.
16 >
17 > I expect to still file patches for portage and I expect to hang out in
18 > gentoo-dev-help on irc and I expect to mentor for this years summer of
19 > code.
20 >
21 > For TreeCleaners I'm sorry that this is out of the blue; I hope you guys
22 > continue to nuke broken crap from the tree.
23 >
24 > For everyone who still loves working in their little window in gentoo, for
25 > all the devs that only read core and not -dev, for all the devs who made
26 > gentoo what it was when I started; thanks. It was a fun ride.
27 >
28 > -Alec
29 >
30
31 I'm sorry to see you go and I wished you would stay. As that doesn't
32 seem likely, I hope you may later join us again.
33 Best wishes for your future endeavors.
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