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CentOS Project Administrator Goes AWOL
An anonymous reader writes "Lance Davis, the main project administrator for CentOS, a popular free 'rebuild' of Red Hat's Enterprise Linux, appears to have gone AWOL. In an open letter from his fellow CentOS developers, they describe the precarious situation the project has been put in. There have been attempts to contact him for some time now, as he's the sole administrator for the centos.org domain, the IRC channels, and apparently, CentOS funds. One can only hope that Lance gets in contact with them and gets things sorted out."
Maybe he and Alan Cox have eloped?
Did they try the lost+found directory?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Maybe he's hiking in Brazil. Did anyone ever think of that?
Has anyone checked to see if he's hiking in the Applachians?
(fixed spelling)
Well, given that he's a computer geek, I think it's safe to say he's not spending time with his Argentinian mistress.
I am officially gone from
Yeah, he probably died and no one, not even his wife, knew that he was a closet Linux Geek. They'll be going over his record, find the accounts, and she'll be crying "Oh my God, I never knew. Why didn't he tell me?!?! We could have worked on it TOGETHER!" Only then you realize that his wife was a closet Linux Developer, and actually responsible for a great deal of OS content.
It'd be be like Mr. and Mrs. Smith, but really nerdy.
if he's lying in a comma, maybe we can just turn him into an exclamation point instead and everything will be just be great!
Right. Just ask Gov Mark Sanford.
He was just out hiking the Appalachian Trail and his staff and the media and his constituents got all verklempt.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Definitely in Argentina.
that's my word, holla...
Exactly 66% of the four CentOS users are affected.
> He probably took the money and ran.
He's now creating his fork called BucksOS.
I'm not sure how far he's gonna get with $27.50, a bag of skittles, and an old copy of 2600.
OMG, you guys hired Soandso. He was with our company. He knocked up 3 admin assistants, and the guy that fixes the copier. He peed in the coffee pot in the break room. As a joke, he put our proprietary code up for sale on Craig's List. The worst of it was when he used 3 months of petty cash and donated it to McCain/Palin 2008.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
Nerd missing for two weeks. Found to have been on WoW binge.
Then again he may be on his period, or have problems with his colon.
Gotta be a record for a chair throw, even for someone with so much practice.
He told his wife he had to fly out, to meet the other CentOS developers... in Buenos Aires...
Maybe he killed his wife and needs some time to remove the passenger front seat. Takes some time to clean up you know? Geez, cut him some slack!
Someone who isn't actively connected to the project won't f*ck up alot of other people's servers just for the hell of it. Right now there's not a problem (legally), but if he intentionally screws up packages there will be. Yeah if you're paranoid, don't update your servers and/or rebuild from official RH srpms. Or buy RH support.
I just asked a friend who works for RH and he can't confirm or deny they've kidnapped him. Hmm .....
Lance Davis, the first editor of Centos, who never actually resigned from his job. He simply left one morning for lunch and never returned to his office, making all later holders of the position "Acting Editors." His old office is still preserved by the Centos volunteers in the hope that he will return. His desk sports a sign that reads "Missing, presumed fed."
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
But still, would it really be that hard to post something like "Wife dead, BRB" on the mailing list?
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It's not the money. It's Jerry Taylor finally getting his revenge after CentOS attacked his website. http://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=127
And I must ask this question: How do you nuzzle enormous breasts while drinking a mo...
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brb
Ah, well if he's moved that recently, then he could very well still be waiting for BT to fix him a landline.
Rambo V: Systems Administrator.
This time... it's technical.
Read my blog.
Reckon. Your TF2 clan is more organised than the company I work for.
What would Brian Boitano do?
My prediction is that either the Admin will turn up or (worst case) won't.
An amazing grasp of the obvious, Mr. AC!
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Trolling is a art,
I, for one, just hope he wasn't hanging out with Hans Reiser.