Seemant's Entries in Category: Farewell

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 ...

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 ...

As Mike pointed out, Spider is no longer a Gentoo developer. Logically, this makes sense, because he has not done any development for Gentoo in a long time. However, Spider was one of the early pillars of the Gentoo project. He holds an especially poignant place in my heart, because he and I joined Gentoo at about the same time (followed closely by Matt Kennedy). And he and I were the ones responsible for Gentoo's Great ...

Today was a very sad day. Gentoo lost a good friend. The FOSS community as a whole lost a good friend. Rob Levin (/nick lilo) of the Freenode project passed away this morning. My heart is heavy from the news, and I still can not believe it. It probably will not hit me for a while yet. Rob was, to Gentoo and to me, personally, a very good friend. Not only was he helpful to the extreme (and graciously so), ...

What is it with Gentoo Developers leaving lately? Two people, scandium and chriswhite, have left in the last two weeks. Ordinarily, I'm used to the turn over in Gentoo development, but honestly not being on the -core list since January (until my dev boxes arrive here, don't get alarmed), I miss out on the news and find out in funny ways. I guess that not being on devrel lists plays into that. Maybe it's just my ego, but I wish ...