Well, I worked on my site and realized I did something stupid but now the links that were broken and the non existent email addy has been redirected to something that actually works. So I should get email..if you send mail to me on the contact me icon, it’ll actually go somewhere instead of dropping off into neverland.

Partially this was caused by the recent story on Linux.com. If someone had tried to contact me before going to press..well, they got no response. Oh well. That’s now more or less resolved.

Yes, yet again I did get quoted about Gentoo, and the issue that are going on. This is not the first time..nor do I suspect the last time. Each time its not been good press but that’s the way of it. I am however disappointed in the author, Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier, who seems to be biased towards the main source of the interview in this case. A former developer who was kicked out for his continual bad behavior. Who in this authors opinion bases too much of who he is on Gentoo. I’m sure if you’d like to hear stories about ciaranm, there’s a good number of actual current and retired developers who’d have a story to tell, both positive and negative. It’d of been much better to have talked with the council about it directly and gotten the story directly from the horses mouth. Instead of the hearsay by third parties.

The other interesting thing is the reason behind the quicker pacing of the CoC being implemented, without having the proctors in place..thus making it a document that has no enforcement. Doesn’t that sound like Devrel currently? Chris I will say is a member of pr and can spin things well..which is no doubt why he wrote the following piece. I’ve heard a couple of different things from parties involved with this, and know the council is reactionary, not proactive. So hearing Chris say they were acting before hand, is just silly in my opinion. The council I hope actually were taking a step forward and taking control like they should have when Daniel left in the first place. It’d be nice to see. But I just don’t see it happening, and even vapier who’s voice probably commands some of the most respect in the community..has lately seemed to have his words fall on deaf ears. I don’t know, that really worries me.

Mike Frysinger (vapier) on the other hand, I know well enough and trust as a upstanding guy to have told me the truth about the matter. The concern as suggested was about losing infra members, more then anything else. Infra as an group probably has the slowest turnover of any group out there, but I could understand a concern from an organization that graciously gives us hosting for many boxes.

We’ll just have to wait and see who ends up being the proctors and if they truly are what they need to be to be effective. We don’t need to be your buddies, you don’t need to like us, nor do we need to like you. Just remember that to anyone who becomes one. As any kind of favortism will allow certain people to pull and take that mile when you gave an inch.. remember that well and you’ll do well I think.