So some wondered why I left Gentoo. Work would be a convenient excuse and it is in part, one of many contributing factors. For things in life are never simple…oh no, they are always complicated when people are involved.

I never felt I did enough in Gentoo. I’m not really cut out to be an ebuild guy; I always compared myself to people I thought were great devs: Donnie, Mike Frysinger, Robin Johnson, Mike Kelly. These people seemed to do a great job, they never said dumb crap, they always had time for questions. I learned a lot from these people (don’t feel excluded if you aren’t on that list, its a lot longer trust me). To this day I don’t get why people think I’m so important ‘oh you can’t leave..bla bla bla’. Seriously man, I maintain like 5 packages, my portage commit rate is like crazy low, I haven’t treecleaned anything since like Jan, and I really just talk a lot. I’m a loud fellow.

Being loud is the number one reason for me to leave. I always claimed my job as a dev was temporary, that the ideal gentoo didn’t need me because the ideal gentoo wouldn’t need to treeclean packages, wouldn’t need ‘meta-developers’ like myself. Which is a completely BS statement, but I kind of stand by it. I’m not an important developer and my technical thoughts don’t amount to much. My claim is that I suck and losing me is really not the big deal everyone makes it out to be. I’m loud but I don’t contribute (much) and I very much hate people that do the same thing I do. Of course lately I’ve tried to do more and be less loud and I think I had succeeded recently.

I left because Gentoo the distro doesn’t have goals (which has been stated over and over again). People do stuff under the umbrella of ‘Gentoo’ that really isn’t what I could consider ‘Gentoo’. Gentoo has far too many developers that seem to do less than even myself (and we all know Antarus doesn’t do shit) but love to speak up on issues and they love to do their one commit every 3 months to keep their @gentoo.org address. Screw em, fire them but keep routing mail, it’s not like gentoo has a namespace problem. Ahh yes but gentoo does have a mail routing problem…hmmm. Well someone can talk to infra about that I guess. I’d love to see a herds listing of ‘active’ developers who like, actively commit crap. Which is once again why management is needed since people are supposed to know when others are gone and cover for them.

I also left because I woke up one day to a -core e-mail entitled ‘Allegations of Council misbehavior?’ and decided Gentoo was just gay and I should not care about it anymore. It just wasn’t worth it anymore. I wouldn’t be able to appease the current developers, I can’t fire the current developers, and I can’t convince the current developers to change things. So I decided I was done.

-Antarus