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Gentoo revokes developer rights of 3, Cabal suspected.

reply to salahx
Good, he's a tool and was one of the main factors that led to the downfall of Gentoo. He should of been gone and any traces of his projects scuttled long ago.

reply to salahx
I don't know anything about this - what kinds of things will get your dev rights revoked?

Checking in too many bugs?
Not enough output?
Nailing the project leader's daughter?
Running Windows?

I just have no idea how these circles work...
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Stephen J. Friedl | Unix Wizard | Microsoft Security MVP | Tustin, California USA | my web site

reply to salahx
I really hope gentoo gets it's collective sh*t in order. I've been using it since before 1.0 days and have yet to find a distro (short of rolling my own with LFS) that easily allows me to do what I'm able to do with gentoo. Now of course this probably has to do with the fact that I've been using it for so long, but still. I've kept up-to-date VM's of SuSe and Ubuntu, however neither really pulls me in quite like Gentoo does.

That being said, I think if gentoo isn't able to get it's collective sh*t in order you'll probably see a fork happen soon before it's collapse.
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reply to firephoto
Agreed.

I don't know the 3 latest to go, but if they're even close to as caustic as McCreesh, then good riddance.
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Overpower, overcome.

reply to salahx
I don't know what the story behind ciaranm, he does come off as pretty caustic. One of the things he said once was pretty funny though:

said by »www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@···809.html :

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Your solution is approximately on par with fixing a wobbly chair by
sawing off all four legs and then attaching what's left to a crocodile.

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ROFLMAO

Heads off to the Gentoo forum......

reply to BeesTea

reply to salahx
Speaking from my Forums Council perspective, I am disappointed by the complete lack of transparency in the process though....
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Ubuntu MOTU Developer and Forums Council

reply to Steve
"Steve 2001-03-10 Tustin, CA Consultant 17550 1h28m reply to salahx

I just have no idea how these circles work..."

Go read the Cathedral and the bazaar and you will understand a bit better.

not specifically but it give a good picture on how open source projects work.

Well, ok, but I've been involved in open source development for a very long time. Just not that project.

Steve -- who doesn't know who the "Cabal" is on any of his other projects

reply to salahx
Well, the Gentoo council met today , however, these wasn't enough time (among other things) to discuss the "enforced retirement" issue .The Council will be holding another meeting next week at the same time for this issue. The actual appeals won't be held then however. Apparently, until now, no one has ever appealed.

reply to salahx
The meeting was today, unfortunately only 2 of the 7 council members showed, and according to their own rules (GLEP 39), if less than 50% of the council is present for a meetings, the entire council must be re-elected. (However the council already met this month, so there's debate as to whether or not this should apply).

Like the Gentoo Project needs any MORE chaos.

reply to salahx
Doesn't inspire confidence...

reply to salahx
Like DRobbins or not, at least when he was running crap there was continuity. The more and more sh*t that goes on with gentoo the more I seriously start to consider a fork.