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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2006-04-21
Yeah. I just visited their website. The top forum topic was titled:
"Gentoo project is a mess. Time to move on?"
It seems that even the Gentoo derivatives are ready to jump ship.
There would be little reason for someone to start a distro derivative if (s)he thought the distro was fine. So in that sense, all derivatives "jump ship".
Secondly, as of 17:37 GMT on the 13 May 2007, the top vote was for "they [Gentoo] will sort their problems out", with minimal support for moving to other distros like Ubuntu.
Thirdly, I haven't heard of any moves by Sabayon to switch package managers, which, when it comes down to it, are what make Gentoo Gentoo.
Finally, I'm not saying Sabayon users should stfu on the issue, but at the end of the day, it's like Americans and British expressing their views on what the other country's policy should be: (a) they may not understand all the issues and (b) they don't get a vote.