Will I lose my dignity? Will you still care?

Funtoo by Daniel Robbins: A Gentoo Developer’s Reply…

I received a pretty remarkable comment from a Gentoo developer that I thought I’d share. It’s amazing on so many levels. Here it is:

Daniel,

Please DO give up on Gentoo. Gentoo has grown beyond the ability for one man to manage, as your proposal seems to indicate you want ultimate authority. Many developers spoke against your return and few in favor of it, particularly in light of your stringent conditions.

Gentoo was established 1999, not to be confused with the previous Enoch Linux and the number of developers you managed before leaving in 2004 was around 100. Number of developers currently is around 300. Please dont assume that you can come back and things will be your way or the highway or that you can just nestle back into your previous position.

Your offer to help did not spawn the momentum for change that many see now; your offer was in fact AFTER developers began work to rectify the situation. This started when developers spoke up on our internal developer only list and work began there.

We have quite a number of developers who have been Gentoo developers longer than even you were, please allow those folks to continue to run the distribution. Like it or not, Gentoo keeps running and moving forward without your vision or interference. We’ve gotten by just fine for the past 4 years without you, we’ll be just fine. kthxbuhbye.

Posted by Daniel Robbins

So, going on 2 assumtions here 1) that this was an actual developer that sent this and 2) that it actually was sent and isn’t made up (not that I disbelieve Daniel… just can’t believe there is someone out there with that much idiocy…)

Could the asshat please stand up? And then exit stage left? Thank you, goodbye.

P.S. I don’t actually expect it to happen… as the note was obviously sent to Daniel in private, I expect said developer to not have the balls to actually take credit for it.

UPDATE: Just so its clear (this is Gentoo land after all) – I do not support the stance taken by the developer that sent the message to Daniel. Just wanted to be sure that was out there… what with all the mis-quoting and so forth that goes on. (Also, I supported Daniel coming back in the interim, unlike others, I don’t moan about my freedoms being taken away or that I will be “ruled” over by some king or whatever asshattery nutjob paranoid idiotic statements people want to make about it)