"Denis Dupeyron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:40:58 +0200:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:18 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> They always say that stuff but never bother explaining what the >> direction they wish for actually is. As a user I get the impression >> that there's some kind of evil Cabal. > > Most of the Gentoo developer population is made of young males with a > natural tendency to overreaction and suboptimal communication skills > (and I'm not implying it's the case of the original poster). So, if I > were you, I wouldn't bother too much to read in between the lines of > these retirement messages. That, and by the time it comes to retirement, one has generally been thru the arguments several times already, the people that need to know why in general already do, and there's a feeling it's not worth rehearsing old positions and bringing up old arguments the one last time. The time for that has already passed by the time someone's announcing their retirement, the decision has been made, it's all water under the bridge now (as the saying goes) and it's time to move on, with a clean break, no longer blaming anyone or etc as that's what one does /before/ it gets to this point. So, indeed, I'm a KDE user here, and it's time to wish them well... Thanks guys for all the hard work, the product of which I'm running (still KDE 3.5.9, here) as I type this. Be well, and hope to see you around the community! There's plenty of projects out there that can use your help! =8^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
