Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 12th Mar 2007 17:32 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"Last week, the Gentoo project entered the lowest point of its 7-year old existence. The single most telling statement attesting to this fact is this brief excerpt from the current issue of Gentoo Weekly News. 'The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project: Daniel Robbins; the following developers recently left the Gentoo project: Daniel Robbins' Yes, this is the same Daniel Robbins who founded Gentoo Linux back in the year 2000 and who left the project in 2004 for personal reasons. He officially re-joined the Gentoo development team two weeks ago - only to resign a few days later. The reason? Strong personal attacks by some of the current developers of the project."
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2007-03-12
> > "Strong personal attacks by some of the current developers of the project."
"
> ^
> That's not fair...
Actually, it was a quarrel with Ciaran McCreesh, ex-developer, that resulted in Daniel Robbins' resignation. Ciaran is considered by some current developers as a trollish person.
I was an active Gentoo user and proponent for ~3 years, but eventually I moved (back) to Debian and Ubuntu some months ago. Still, this stream of events really saddened me.
The thread that started all this can be found here:
* http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/46339
Look at this too:
* http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/46339/focus=46404
* http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/46339/focus=46467
* http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/46339/focus=46482
* http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/46339/focus=46496
And finally:
* http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/46478/focus=46489
* http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/46478/focus=46491
* http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/46478/focus=46495
* http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/46478/focus=46498
Plus, another developer has left for the same reasons:
* http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/46478/focus=46500
* http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/46478/focus=46503
Summing up:
"300 messages, two developers, and 17 cups of coffee later..
* http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/46339/focus=46555