Entries in Category: Developers

For the past 7 or so months (maybe more?) I've been in the mode of quitting Gentoo. At first, I wanted to make sure I had a new email address at which people could contact me. Since 2001, my primary and only email address has been my Gentoo one. And it's still the one that appears on google searches of me. Now, of course, I'm me at this domain, so it should be a no-brainer. Anyway, as I established that ...

This is the first of two posts. Don't worry, they're about different people. I'm doing this one first because it ties into the whole ancient history motif of this week's posts. Matt Kennedy (mkennedy) is one of my oldest online friends. I've known him since early in 2000 (or maybe even late '99). He, along with Rach and Devdas (f3ew) and of course edge-op, is part of the yahoo! chat crowd. Of course, he was not mkennedy back ...

A few people have talked about Stuart's departure already. And I didn't read any of the planet yesterday, when I posted. So that means it's been 2 days since his official announcement, and I've been suspiciously quiet about it :( Well, no longer. A few of us knew Stuart was going to retire a little bit before his resignation from the board. I will be honest here: I did not ...

Obviously, Christian won the last battle. I do concede defeat. But I'm about to strike back. I guess our definitions of holiday differ slightly. I believe a holiday to be anything where you take a break from something. So you can take a holiday from work, and still hack Gentoo, or take a holiday from Gentoo and get your sanity back, etc. In your case I recommend both a time-out and a holiday from Gentoo at least. From ...

Well, Christian, I took the phrase "time-out to mean holiday. In other words, a time out from gentoo is a holiday away from it. Having said that, your time out has been about as effective as Alec's. You guys need to learn to get away from the keyboard. :p Especially with real life work becoming more intense for a while: it's one thing if Gentoo provides you some temporary relief and an escape; quite another if Gentoo ...

Look here, Christian, don't you dare think about leaving, ok? I think the extended break is a good idea, but you've yet to actually do it, you know :p. In fact, for someone on holiday, you've been extraordinarily active. So, do what you need to do, just don't leave. That is all. As for the bitchfests and flamefests, it actually seems to me as though things are improving in a small, almost imperceptible way. Let's see if that can ...

I hate writing these. What I mean is that I hate having to write them. What I mean by that is that I wish people I care about (not only because they've become friends, but also because of the tremendous value they've brought to Gentoo during their time here) would stop leaving. Yesterday, Jon Portnoy (aka avenj) announced his retirement from the project. Jon came to us via the #gentoo IRC channel. In fact, if there's a ...

Emanuele officially announced his retirement from the project last night. Real life duties are catching up with him, and he's suffered a loss of motivation within Gentoo, and so he's decided to move on. This saddens me greatly, because in his short career at Gentoo, he did some pretty amazing things: he cleaned up xterm, he set the clean up of kerberos into motion (which my long time readers will note is something I utterly failed at), and posted ...

You know, Dan left Gentoo a few months ago. And he was another who left with a whisper rather than a bang. Dan (danarmak) was already a developer when I joined. At the time, I couldn't stand KDE. I was a fluxbox user. A few months prior to my joining, Dan had basically become Gentoo's KDE team. He took care of all the version bumps, he made the decision (a very good one, by the way) to have the ...

A few developers were retired from the Gentoo project in the last couple of weeks. I'd like to acknowledge those people here for a moment. First up: Sascha (cybersystem). Sascha was 14 when he first joined Gentoo. He was immediately put in charge of our mailing lists and went on to set up our jabber system and maintained a few packages. At the time he and Jon were the youngest developers on our roster. And, I make no ...