What is it with Gentoo Developers leaving lately? Two people, scandium and chriswhite, have left in the last two weeks. Ordinarily, I’m used to the turn over in Gentoo development, but honestly not being on the -core list since January (until my dev boxes arrive here, don’t get alarmed), I miss out on the news and find out in funny ways. I guess that not being on devrel lists plays into that. Maybe it’s just my ego, but I wish I’d known their intentions before I found out and before they left so that, I dunno, I might have at least had the chance to change their minds.
And “why?” you might ask. Well, it’s very simple, the two of them were great developers. ChrisWhite took so much on in the media-video category (primarily, but he wasn’t afraid of media-* and lisp and fortran, for crying out loud) and fixed it up nicely. And that was just to start with. He handled the relationship with Real (a relationship that is NOT easy to handle, trust me). He handled various other packages. In other words, a dependable developer.
Scandium was responsible for all things cvs in portage. No, not the *-cvs packages that the ricers seem to love, but the actual dev-util/cvs stuff. You’ll find that he handled other stuff in the dev- categories like pike, a language I’ve certainly never heard of.
Anyway, as of this writing, I have no idea why either of them left, and I’m a little pissed off about it, because at this stage, it’s probably way too late to change either of their minds. Hey, I can try.
Anyway, since I’m not on -core I couldn’t give them a send off, so I suppose this qualifies, even though it’s much more public.
I concur, very unfortunate to lose good developers.
Seemant, look back to the last years. Every spring developers leave the project. I got kinda used to it, although I feel sad that we leave some good fellows…