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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Member since:2006-01-03
You can't control members, there are idiots in all distros. I would say the majority of people are quite helpful and you just got unlucky or didn't listen.
Have been part of the gentoo forums for years, it appears seasoned users generally bend over backwards to help new users.
Member since:2005-10-31
But when that very element "Portage" is being threatened by the disruptive approach of development for competing technology "Paludis[1]" in the same place those user will be needing more help to get less done and the underlying infrastructure moves closer to simply collapsing due to a lack of direction.
[1]http://paludis.pioto.org/faq.html#why
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2005-08-01
Nothing to see here... move along... I still like Gentoo.
I did not start using it because of the personalities involved with the distro. I started using it because of its powerful package management "portage" and because it allows users (who take the time to read and learn) to pretty much control every aspect of their system.
The Gentoo forums are still alive and well, and the community is still as strong as ever. Perhaps Gentoo is driven by the larger community as a whole (usually what gets implemented depends on what the users are requesting), and big name developers aren't as relevant.