I sent drobbins the paperwork last week, and he mailed out signed copies today. I didn't send a message to the mailing list because I assumed that a news announcement on the front page of www.gentoo.org would suffice....
It will be fairly soon. I've already written the text, but I have to wait until somebody w/ website permission can post the release and regenerate the site.
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Okay, as a current, non-anonymous, and long-time Gentoo dev I'll be happy to "set things straight here".
"Daniel Robbins has ridden on the coat tails of other developers for so long it is not funny, I left the project due to this...." I've seen Mr. Robbins take credit for the vision behind Gentoo Linux and his work in managing the project, but I have never seen him take credit for another's work. Moreover, I don't remember anybody complaining about it publicly. Drobbins may be Gentoo's "benevolent dictator", but he also listens when a consensus forms that he's wrong about something.
"...he pockets the money that he makes from banners ads (yes banner ads on the.org site) directly...." To the best of my knowledge that statement is true. It has also never been denied, and he has spent $1000's (US) of his own money on server hardware and Gentoo evangelism.
"...he hasn't [...] done much more than push things into where he feels they should be at in a long long time." Rather the definition of a project manager, I would think. Taking a look at the project CVS log, I see his name in there a fair amount, too.
"...even his 'original' things like his live CD technology and his stage building scripts were blatantly ripped off (without the GPL required credits remaining in them) from former developers.. to which he claims 100% credit for now as his original work." He does? Where? Certainly the original Gentoo LiveCD was written by one of our devs and not by Drobbins, but I've never seen him take credit for it. In fact, another of our devs has been heavily involved in the current livecd's, and I don't see Mr. Robbins taking credit for those, either.
As for 1.4, yeah, we messed up there. Here's an abbreviated list of things to finish before 1.4_final:
* non-tmpfs baselayout
* CFLAGS/CHOST script and better docs
* Active GRP testing
* Genkernel script (for x86 at least)
I'm hoping that 1.4 does, indeed, come out fairly soon, but I'm also not putting in the effort required to make that happen right now, so I don't really get to complain.
If you wish to create your own distro, you're quite welcome to do so. You are even quite welcome to fork Gentoo, if you so desire. All of Gentoo Linux is GPL, after all.
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I sent drobbins the paperwork last week, and he
mailed out signed copies today. I didn't send
a message to the mailing list because I assumed
that a news announcement on the front page of
www.gentoo.org would suffice....
Now up
It will be fairly soon. I've already written the
text, but I have to wait until somebody w/
website permission can post the release and
regenerate the site.
Okay, as a current, non-anonymous, and long-time Gentoo dev I'll be happy to "set things straight here". "Daniel Robbins has ridden on the coat tails of other developers for so long it is not funny, I left the project due to this...." I've seen Mr. Robbins take credit for the vision behind Gentoo Linux and his work in managing the project, but I have never seen him take credit for another's work. Moreover, I don't remember anybody complaining about it publicly. Drobbins may be Gentoo's "benevolent dictator", but he also listens when a consensus forms that he's wrong about something. "...he pockets the money that he makes from banners ads (yes banner ads on the .org site) directly...." To the best of my knowledge that statement is true. It has also never been denied, and he has spent $1000's (US) of his own money on server hardware and Gentoo evangelism.
"...he hasn't [...] done much more than push things into where he feels they should be at in a long long time." Rather the definition of a project manager, I would think. Taking a look at the project CVS log, I see his name in there a fair amount, too.
"...even his 'original' things like his live CD technology and his stage building scripts were blatantly ripped off (without the GPL required credits remaining in them) from former developers.. to which he claims 100% credit for now as his original work." He does? Where? Certainly the original Gentoo LiveCD was written by one of our devs and not by Drobbins, but I've never seen him take credit for it. In fact, another of our devs has been heavily involved in the current livecd's, and I don't see Mr. Robbins taking credit for those, either.
As for 1.4, yeah, we messed up there. Here's an abbreviated list of things to finish before 1.4_final:
* non-tmpfs baselayout
* CFLAGS/CHOST script and better docs
* Active GRP testing
* Genkernel script (for x86 at least)
I'm hoping that 1.4 does, indeed, come out fairly soon, but I'm also not putting in the effort required to make that happen right now, so I don't really get to complain.
If you wish to create your own distro, you're quite welcome to do so. You are even quite welcome to fork Gentoo, if you so desire. All of Gentoo Linux is GPL, after all.