It is but then again it is not. The twiki blow up last year is a good example of just this type of thing. Today foswiki seems to be thriving and twiki is not though they are looking for perl developers. Gentoo has had similiar issues and I would hazard a guess this will continue to happen because humans continue to allow or do this type of thing.
I am a little surprised it took them this long to really get after the guy though. Not sure if I would agree with going public on this but then it sounds like they did do everything they could to contact him outside of the public sphere. On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Michael Gorman<[email protected]> wrote: > It is very ironic that someone for Free Open Source and in charge of a > distro would be very closed on the project. > Michael Gorman > > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Dino K <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> http://www.centos.org/ >> >> "July 30, 2009 04:39 UTC >> >> This is an Open Letter to Lance Davis from fellow CentOS Developers >> >> It is regrettable that we are forced to send this letter but we are left >> with no other options. For some time now we have been attempting to resolve >> these problems: >> >> You seem to have crawled into a hole ... and this is not acceptable. >> >> You have long promised a statement of CentOS project funds; to this date >> this has not appeared. >> >> You hold sole control of the centos.org domain with no deputy; this is not >> proper. >> >> You have, it seems, sole 'Founders' rights in the IRC channels with no >> deputy ; this is not proper. >> >> When I (Russ) try to call the phone numbers for UK Linux, and for you >> individually, I get a telco intercept 'Lines are temporarily busy' for the >> last two weeks. Finally yesterday, a voicemail in your voice picked up, and >> I left a message urgently requesting a reply. Karanbir also reports calling >> and leaving messages without your reply. >> >> Please do not kill CentOS through your fear of shared management of the >> project. >> >> Clearly the project dies if all the developers walk away. >> >> Please contact me, or any other signer of this letter at once, to arrange >> for the required information to keep the project alive at the 'centos.org' >> domain. >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Russ Herrold >> Ralph Angenendt >> Karanbir Singh >> Jim Perrin >> Donavan Nelson >> Tim Verhoeven >> Tru Huynh >> Johnny Hughes" >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > >
