Category Archives: Rants

When you think you’ve seen everything…

Posted on April 28, 2008 by ferdy

…you get up, fire your mail client just to find: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64840 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168573 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161368 Please take the time to read those ‘Excerpts’, they are really enlightening. Politics is so much fun. Some facts: All of them work in Paludis Some of … Continue reading →

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Doing It Wrong

Posted on April 27, 2008 by ferdy

I hear this image got someone a Developer Relations complain. Way to go, Gentoo. Way to go. You are clearly doing it wrong. (For those that aren’t aware of this rather old issue: have fun). – ferdy

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I wonder who is acting like a moron…

Posted on November 9, 2007 by ferdy

It is often surprising how some people can really lose control of a situation. Take this example http://dev.gentoo.org/~ferdy/tmp/seemant-moron.log . It is actually sad having to deal with that kind of thing. I asked three times for an apology and (surprise … Continue reading →

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Groups forgetting basic rules

Posted on August 28, 2005 by ferdy

Somehow big groups tend to forget basic rules, (i.e. someone from the group breaks the rule), even if the rule is one of the Top5 rules they have to follow. One common example of this is the (BTW, really easy) … Continue reading →

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