[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Joey Hess is out?



"David L. Craig" <dlc.usa@gmail.com> writes:

> On 14Nov08:1603+0100, Mart van de Wege wrote:
>
>> Quite frankly, I'm disgusted. A developer with a lot of contributions is
>> chased away by the noise made by a bunch of whiners who can't even be
>> bothered to set up a test server.
>> 
>> And because some devs want to placate those whiners, we get interminable
>> political games and good people quitting the project.
>> 
>> Why don't the anti-systemd people do what they've been threatening the
>> whole time and fuck off to another distro or to FreeBSD?
>
> That comes across as someone who believes in not letting
> a good crisis go to waste.  However, your opinions about
> this DD's motivations are exceptionally wide of the mark
> given he said nothing about non-DD influences and did
> point to changes in the structures and interactions of
> DDs exclusive of non-DDs.  In other words, this is bogus
> opinion (spin), not factual reporting.

Joey's reasons for leaving are his own. His prior posts to debian-devel
though included exasperation and despair at actually getting threats for
his pro-systemd stance, so I think I am not unreasonable to suspect that
that played a role.

Mart

-- 
"We will need a longer wall when the revolution comes."
    --- AJS, quoting an uncertain source.


Reply to: