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On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 05:07, Geert Bevin wrote: |
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> Hi everyone, |
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> since a number of people privately asked me why I decided to leave the |
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> Gentoo Linux development team, I wrote an article that explains what |
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> drove me to this decision. For those that are interested, it can be read |
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> here : http://www.uwyn.com/resources/gentoo_departure.html |
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You know, I really shouldn't say this in public, but any sympathy I had |
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for you just vanished when I read that doc. You post a log of |
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conversation between two people showing at best an interest in a C++ |
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based portage2 but no guarantee thats the path portage would be going |
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down. And then you down play the objections people had to your plan of |
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portage 2. I was one of the people against the idea and I wasn't the |
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only one by far. |
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You know, things change, plans change, people change. If you feel your |
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work had been thrown away unfairly thats one thing and a valid reason to |
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quit. If you feel it was a waste of your time due to a lack of |
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communication or other people in the project not agreeing with your |
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work, thats life, thats opensource, deal. If you don't agree with the |
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decisions then leave, if it were important enough I would. But instead |
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of stating that and questioning the decision, you slander people in your |
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"excuse". |
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>From my experiences with you and based on the doc you posted I think you |
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should take a look at yourself before accusing anyone else of "tendency |
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to monopolise". I was there in the channel when you two had a |
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discussion, and drobbins, the Chief Architect and Project Lead, vetoed |
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one of your ideas. You couldn't handle not being in complete control of |
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portage v1 so you resigned from being the portage v1 release engineer |
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and then commenced into bitching to me and other people. |
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In that document you present your view point and manage to slander a |
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couple other developers in the process. Although I don't really see why |
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you wrote the doc and decided to announce it far and wide unless your |
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intent was to tarnish existing developers and the Gentoo project over |
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all. As a (minor) developer that angers me. |
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I think people should see there is more then one view point and I'm |
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frankly infuriated that you brought up a private matter between a |
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developer (Vitaly) and a few other certain members of the development |
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team _that had nothing to do with the reason you cleam to have left |
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Gentoo_. |
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I'm going to end it there... |
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As a developer you made many good contributions to Gentoo and we will |
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miss you as a developer. Its too bad it had to end in a public temper |
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tantrum. I hope you have success in whatever you do. |
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Bruce A. Locke |
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blocke@××××××.org |