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Distribution quotes of the week

Posted Jun 21, 2012 22:00 UTC (Thu) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
In reply to: Distribution quotes of the week by gorm
Parent article: Distribution quotes of the week

Yikes, that's awful.

At some level I just don't understand what the Poettering animosity is all about, sometimes it seems like crabs in a bucket, pulling down anyone who tries to do better. If so then maybe that will only be fixed by natural, mortal, attrition, like how many scientific disciplines work.

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Distribution quotes of the week

Posted Jun 22, 2012 15:56 UTC (Fri) by am (guest, #69042) [Link]

Wait... what?

Michał Górny is the lead of the Gentoo systemd project... Wouldn't that be a bit of a weird thing for him to say?

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/systemd/index.xml

(I'd like to believe it's a poor mud-slinging attempt by a certain individual known for resorting to such tactics)

Distribution quotes of the week

Posted Jun 22, 2012 15:59 UTC (Fri) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

Maybe it was meant ironically or sarcastically and was quoted out of context? Maybe familiarity has bred contempt?

Distribution quotes of the week

Posted Jun 22, 2012 18:26 UTC (Fri) by gorm (guest, #85267) [Link]

You can always ask him yourself. It was said by him in #gentoo-dev on freenode on Thursday, 21st, 22:25:35.

Here's the context as well:

[Thursday 21 June 2012] [22:21:56] <mgorny> I just left #systemd
[Thursday 21 June 2012] [22:22:00] <mgorny> be proud of me
[Thursday 21 June 2012] [22:22:11] <_AxS_> mgorny: ..for going in or for leaving? :)
[Thursday 21 June 2012] [22:22:26] <mgorny> for leaving. i showed Lennart straight in the face that I don't care about him!
[Thursday 21 June 2012] [22:22:37] <mgorny> well, maybe not straight but still.
[Thursday 21 June 2012] [22:22:50] <mgorny> now let's start planning my new init system :P
[Thursday 21 June 2012] [22:23:11] <_AxS_> mgorny: can we call it something nice and open.. oh, how about openrc ?
[Thursday 21 June 2012] [22:23:29] <Poly-C> mgorny, logs or it didn't happen :P
[Thursday 21 June 2012] [22:23:44] <mgorny> Poly-C: er...
[Thursday 21 June 2012] [22:23:44] <mgorny> 22:23:22 ::: You have left #systemd ("Auf Wiedersehen!")
[Thursday 21 June 2012] [22:23:54] <antarus> so why did you leave?
[Thursday 21 June 2012] [22:23:58] <antarus> I thought you loved systemd?
[Thursday 21 June 2012] [22:24:18] <mgorny> _AxS_: I said init, not RC :P
[Thursday 21 June 2012] [22:24:31] <mgorny> antarus: are you jealous or something?
[Thursday 21 June 2012] [22:24:36] <_AxS_> mgorny: right, gotchya
[Thursday 21 June 2012] [22:24:40] * antarus is not in #systemd
[Thursday 21 June 2012] [22:24:50] <mgorny> I have already pointed out advantages I see in systemd
[Thursday 21 June 2012] [22:25:03] <mgorny> but that doesn't justify what they're doing to any coding standards I know
[Thursday 21 June 2012] [22:25:18] <mgorny> s/any/every/
[Thursday 21 June 2012] [22:25:35] <mgorny> that man should just be put in line with Ciaran and shot so he'll do no more harm
[Thursday 21 June 2012] [22:25:40] <_AxS_> ... i didn't know 'systemd' and 'justified' could go in the same sentence..
[Thursday 21 June 2012] [22:26:04] <mgorny> or even worse