Daniel Robbins leaves Gentoo, again (original) (raw)

| From: | | "Alexandre Rostovtsev" <tetromino-AT-gmail.com> | | ------------ | | ----------------------------------------------------- | | To: | | lwn-AT-lwn.net | | Subject: | | story submission: Daniel Robbins leaves Gentoo, again | | Date: | | Mon, 5 Mar 2007 12:35:31 -0500 |

Hi. On Feb 27, you ran the story[1] that Daniel Robbins, creator of gentoo, had returned to the project. Well, a week later he left again. You can get the full gory details in [2] and [3].

Basically, drobbins got into an epic flamewar[4] with Ciaran McCreesh, a popular but controversial former gentoo dev who still frequents gentoo mailing lists. Tempers flared, and drobbins pushed for getting ciaranm banned[5] from gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list, ostensibly on the grounds that ciaranm is no longer an official gentoo developer. The rest of the gentoo devs refused[6] to do so. Then Daniel Robbins quit[7] the project.

I have a humorous summary of the events in a comment[8].

-Alex Rostovtsev, longtime gentoo user.

[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/224082/ [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/46478 [3] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/46339 [4] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/46363 [5] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/46469 [6] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/46489 [7] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/46491 [8] http://lwn.net/Articles/224615/