My heart sank more and more as I read spider's retelling of Gentoo history. He's right, you know. There are too many agendas, too much bickering, crushing bureacracy and a declining number of personal relationships within our community. Thankfully, the small group of people I call friends within the community still remain (many of them from the amd64 team, naturally). But I admit that I'm just as guilty of becoming distant from fellow developers. And it's for many of the reasons that spider discussed. The bureaucracy has grown to the point that it's a hassle to get anything done. If you have to rely on a herd to complete something, then the expectation is that you should file a bug report. And bugzilla is the gaping maw inside which time stands still.
I commented on what I thought should be done to bring some focus and vision back to Gentoo in my reply to plasmaroo's resignation email. Sadly, I doubt anything will come of it. If anything good can come out of plasmaroo and spider's resignation, maybe it's that the remaining veteran developers-- developers who remember Gentoo's glory days-- will the spurred to action and lead Gentoo away from its current melancholy. I know this has been jarring for me. So much so that I intend to be much more active in IRC and on the -dev and -core MLs. I don't intend to file bugs internally anymore unless I simply can't contact a developer within a herd directly through IRC or email. -- Jason Huebel Gentoo Developer GPG Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x9BA9E230 "Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand." Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
