For a long time now we were able to watch the flamewars between Lovechild and ciaranm. Recently there has been a change, Lovechild got banned in the Gentoo forums by klieber in December 2004 for that post.
Now ian has moved the non-official kernel patchset-threads to “Off the Wall”, this move may be provoked by ciaranms permanent “convincing”. Ian said to me that he is “at this time [I’m] supporting developers who were calling for help”.
Most of the “non-official” users understand why this step was made, but they are not happy with it as “Off the Wall” is usually used for non-gentoo topics.
There is currently a proposal by the users to open up a new forum for gentoo-related but not official projects.
I hope we can get the current situation improved by this move.
I agree that the unsupported software forum is a good idea, and believe it or not, I dislike the Reiser4 patch nearly as much as Ciaran does – just ask in the #love-sources channel, but I can’t get it removed since it’s not my decision alone. We have a staff board that votes on these things, and currently people who don’t have to actively maintain that patch are voting for it to stay – despite several tests exposing serious interactivity problems, and it generally being a pain in the ass feature.
I don’t personally promote the patch, again ask the channel for verification, and it made me very unpopular with the long time users – I don’t however disagree with peoples right to test such features – I just won’t have anything to do with it at all supportwise, and I don’t think it’s fair to expect me, or the Gentoo developers to provide support for this feature (note ever since the love-sources team was asked to include a disclaimer, we have – we don’t intend to burden the Gentoo team in anyway – but we can’t account for people’s stupidity and idiotic behavior).
-Lovechild