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Michael Smith Leaves Core
Donald Burr of Borg writes "Following in the footsteps of Jordan Hubbard,
Michael Smith leaves the FreeBSD core team. Reasons cited are similar to those that jkh gave, including displeasure at the bureacracy and politicking, and FreeBSD not being "fun" anymore."
What the fuck !. I'm not on slashdot very often
but fuck ! You are so troll. Are you sick of the "BSD is dying". I am !. Your _*REALLY_ feed the stupid troll. Is it the slashdot goal ?. Is the slashdot slogan "We feed the troll since 1997 !".
Balderdash.
Slashdot's "BSD is dying" troll is notorious -- there are few people in the open-source community who haven't seen or heard of those posts. Mike's use of the troll in a rhetorical device is natural; he's simply saying that even though he and Jordan are "dying" parts of FreeBSD, FreeBSD goes on. (I suspect that his reference to the troll is also making a dig at the people he blames for making his life on core miserable by tying them to the "Slashdot crowd.")
FreeBSD is making steady progress on a variety of fronts. Mike's complaint isn't that FreeBSD itself is dying, or broken. It's that the project's governance is broken, and that far too much time is spent arguing petty matters with little effect beyond making the participants unhappy.
There is one way that Mike's leaving is a Good Thing, in that it will trigger a core election. That may go some ways toward solving the problem.