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On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Denis Dupeyron<calchan@g.o> wrote: |
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> It's my pleasure to announce the return of Jory A. Pratt (anarchy) as |
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> a Gentoo developer. Jory has been very active recently to put our |
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> mozilla stuff back into shape and he will go on doing that. |
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Yay! Now people can stop having to proxy-commit for you! ;) |
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As the previous maintainer of mozilla stuff, I would like to throw my |
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full support behind him here. For those who don't know, Jory was the |
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original maintainer of mozilla stuff, and knows upstream pretty well. |
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If you're using firefox 3.5, thank him :) |
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> As |
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> recruiting has changed a lot since he first joined his quizzes |
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> required a serious brush up, but he worked on this with diligence. |
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May I remind people that for a returning dev, being able to sit and |
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understand + solve all the quizzes *again* is a very formidable task. |
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There have been devs who tried to return, but balked at having to take |
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the quizzes again and just gave up[1]. |
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> Those who have been with Gentoo for a while may remember how Jory left |
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> us. I can assure you from the many hours I've talked with him recently |
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> that he has changed and is doing a lot of effort to behave properly. |
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> Those who still have doubts should know that he will be closely |
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> watched just in case. |
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For those of you who know me (not many, I'm sure but still), I would |
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like to add a drop to Denis's bucket of reassurance about him. |
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I have been working with Anarchy for many months now, and he's nothing |
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like he was at his worst. I admit that my knowledge of those times is |
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second-hand (via bugs and irc logs), but the man in those is quite |
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different from the man I worked with. The man I worked with is |
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knowledgeable, calm, clear-headed, open to criticism, patient, and |
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hard-working. |
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To all those who have reservations about him, I hope my drop made a |
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difference :) |
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> When not working on Gentoo, Jory is a father and husband. He also runs |
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> a motorcycle shop. Please join me in congratulating him for his |
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> return. |
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Once again, hooray for Jory! :D |
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1. There's no point naming anyone here. |
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~Nirbheek Chauhan |
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