jlc Posted April 27, 2004 Report Share Posted April 27, 2004 (edited) Daniel Robbins, founder and "Chief Architect" of the Gentoo Linux distribution, has decided to call it quits in terms of being associated with Gentoo. This was met with quite a bit of shock from the Gentoo community and developers alike, as this move was quite unexpected. Daniel Robbins also proposed the setting up of Non-Profit Organization to handle future development. Initially, he wanted to serve in the board of this organization, but he later changed his mind. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.nfp/73 From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@...>Subject: Resigning from development role Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.nfp Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 11:48:49 +0000 Hi All, As of today, I am resigning from my development responsibilities for Gentoo. This includes my role as Chief Architect and as manager of release engineering. I am not appointing a replacement Chief Architect. For releng, Zhen is doing an excellent job leading this effort and I would like him to be able to continue his work in this area. Regards, Daniel http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=166143 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.nfp/65 Edited April 27, 2004 by cybrjackle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted April 27, 2004 Report Share Posted April 27, 2004 :eek: ... now what? ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted April 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2004 They will all flock to Slackware B) j/k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted April 27, 2004 Report Share Posted April 27, 2004 They will all flock to Slackware B) j/k Not! :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted April 27, 2004 Report Share Posted April 27, 2004 That's a really surprising news.. but gentoo should be in good hands, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted April 27, 2004 Report Share Posted April 27, 2004 (edited) arch linux :P Edited April 27, 2004 by tyme Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted April 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2004 That's a really surprising news.. but gentoo should be in good hands, right? I think they will be fine, hopefully someone was shareing his vision for Gentoo and keep makeing it better. portage-ng better get finished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted April 27, 2004 Report Share Posted April 27, 2004 zynot may be an alternative if gentoo goes completely belly up. I really doubt that this is going to happen though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted April 27, 2004 Report Share Posted April 27, 2004 Why is everyone talking about the demise of Gentoo as if it is nigh fact?? The guy is leaving, which means one less top developer. It's not like there is no more community left, or emerge stopped working or so...!??!! If Linus would take a break, would that mean Linux would stop existing and we'd all have to move to *bsd or (heaven forbid) MSWin...?? Of course not! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted April 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2004 I don't think it will, to big of a community and somewere in the neighbor hood of 200 developers. He will surely be missed, but who knows maybe he will still have a hand in it somewere. He just wants to pay the bills like all of us do. Now If Patrick Volkerding calls it quit's on Slackware, theres a good chance it will die ;( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted April 27, 2004 Report Share Posted April 27, 2004 Now If Patrick Volkerding calls it quit's on Slackware, theres a good chance it will die ;( Uh-oh! Somebody better warn Patrick. Although somehow I think if that happens, Cybrjackle will simply start up his own distro B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youngmug Posted April 28, 2004 Report Share Posted April 28, 2004 (edited) If Slackware ever does die, I will gladly pitch in with Cybrjackle and help resurect it. I love it for server work (most everything else is so heavy - I like light servers). Edited April 28, 2004 by youngmug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Gowator Posted April 28, 2004 Report Share Posted April 28, 2004 Now If Patrick Volkerding calls it quit's on Slackware, theres a good chance it will die ;( Uh-oh! Somebody better warn Patrick. Although somehow I think if that happens, Cybrjackle will simply start up his own distro B) and another .... and another .... scroll bars ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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