On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 23:43 +0000, Duncan wrote: > Umm... last I heard he had "gone walkabout", simply disappearing, and > nobody seemed to know what happened to him. That was days ago and some > of the other devs are trying to fill in, with mixed results as no one has > his knowledge of the area yet. People are worried, as he didn't resign > or anything, just no communication at all, for days. > > There's a thread on the dev list asking for clarification of metadata.xml > maintainer's policy as a result. But the thread is I believe a couple > days old now with no more input. Maybe he's back? > > I must confess I'm a bit worried too.
That is worrysome. People who are hurt, are incapacitated or who pass away, just drop offline without a word. I've seen this before. I've gotten crosswise of Jakub on the bugs database and he runs it as a pretty tight ship, but it's obvious that he does a _great_ deal of absolutely necessary work and by and large does a fine job. Surely someone with the Gentoo Project has physical stats on his whereabouts such as a phone number and/or snail-mail address. -- Lindsay Haisley | "In an open world, | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | who needs Windows | available at 512-259-1190 | or Gates" | http://pubkeys.fmp.com http://www.fmp.com | | -- [email protected] mailing list
