Daniel offered to take over portions of the Gentoo Foundation and oversee specific aspects of Gentoo development. I don’t see how he ever expected a decent answer to his offer; it had a time limit of seven days. Moreso, it was delivered via a blog, possibly not the best method to notify a set of people in a timely manner (e-mailing the trustees would be a better alternative; or blogging and posting on gentoo-nfp). Certainly I can see some reasoning behind a time limit; however seven days is pretty short and some people were on holiday for the new year still and thus were not notified until three days into the proposed time period.

I was going to have a bunch more content; but it will be on www.gentoo.org as soon as I can get some feedback on certain items. This was going to be a part of that news item but it was deemed too editorial (drawing conclusions about time constrains and motivations) and so I took it out and moved it to my blog where it is appropriate to make editorial comments.

I wish Daniel the best and good luck in his efforts. He is a great guy and I’m disappointed that he seems not to want to consider helping Gentoo as a typical trustee or council member; both teams on which he would most likely be most welcome. He raises valid points about the current state of Gentoo and there are threads on both gentoo-nfp and gentoo-project on how to solve them. For the avid users out there; I’d like to remind you that the distribution cannot move forward without you and the time you volunteer. If you wish to help out there is the completely out of date staffing needs page.