Stefan Schweizer

For a long time now we were able to watch the flamewars between Lovechild and ciaranm. Recently there has been a change, Lovechild got banned in the Gentoo forums by klieber in December 2004 for that post.

Now ian has moved the non-official kernel patchset-threads to "Off the Wall", this move may be provoked by ciaranms permanent "convincing". Ian said to me that he is "at this time [I'm] supporting developers who were calling for help".
Most of the "non-official" users understand why this step was made, but they are not happy with it as "Off the Wall" is usually used for non-gentoo topics.
There is currently a proposal by the users to open up a new forum for gentoo-related but not official projects.
I hope we can get the current situation improved by this move.

Hi,

I am a gentoo developer working on kernel/hardware/mobile/net-dialup ebuilds but also on completely unrelated parts like acroread or lineak. I joined gentoo because I wanted to get my ebuilds from bugzilla in the tree, so I usually try to help others having ebuilds lying around for months in bugzilla.

Currently I am testing the ebuild for the new Acrobat Reader 7.0 to get it to perfection. I got an interesting mail about how I could get the browser plugin to work on both firefox and mozilla, I am still testing. Quite interestingly, the "7.0" we use now is not the final product but an early pre-release to meet tax-deadlines in the Netherlands.