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[MinGW-dvlpr] bye

From: Danny Smith <dannysmith@cl...> - 2007-08-30 08:29

I tred to remove myself from the mingw developer/admin group and was
told:

" Project administrators are not permitted to remove their own admin
status. Please have another administrator on your project remove your
admin status, or contact SourceForge.net staff for assistance."

Sheesh. What kinda control freak made that rule?

Please remove my admin and developer status, Ms/Mr Controller.

Bye

Danny

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Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] bye

From: Chris Sutcliffe <ir0nh34d@gm...> - 2007-08-30 10:45

Hey Danny,

> I tred to remove myself from the mingw developer/admin group and was
> told:

<snip>

> Please remove my admin and developer status, Ms/Mr Controller.
>
> Bye

Are you leaving the project?

If you are leaving, I'm sorry to hear it, but I'm sure you have your
reasons. I'd like to thank you for all the effort you've put in to
MinGW gcc!

Cheers!

Chris

--
Chris Sutcliffe
http://ir0nh34d.googlepages.com
http://ir0nh34d.blogspot.com
http://emergedesktop.org

Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] bye

From: Earnie Boyd <earnie@us...> - 2007-08-30 11:15

Quoting Danny Smith <dannysmith@cl...>:

> I tred to remove myself from the mingw developer/admin group and was
> told:
>
> " Project administrators are not permitted to remove their own admin
> status. Please have another administrator on your project remove your
> admin status, or contact SourceForge.net staff for assistance."
>
> Sheesh. What kinda control freak made that rule?
>
> Please remove my admin and developer status, Ms/Mr Controller.
>

We want you chained to the project forever; didn't you read the fine
print of the contract? ;p You had the power but I took the liberty to
do the deed. A sad deed in the time of MinGW in fact. Are you
abandoning the GCC effort as well? Should we post for help maintaining
your packages? Where will MinGW go without a binutils and GCC
maintainer?

Earnie

Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] [Mingw-users] bye

From: Keith Marshall <keithmarshall@us...> - 2007-08-30 13:54

Hi Danny,

On Thursday 30 August 2007 09:29, Danny Smith wrote:
> I tred to remove myself from the mingw developer/admin group and was
> told:
>
> " Project administrators are not permitted to remove their own admin
> status. Please have another administrator on your project remove your
> admin status, or contact SourceForge.net staff for assistance."
>
> Sheesh. What kinda control freak made that rule?

It's a requirement of SourceForge themselves. It is logical; if every
project administrator were permitted to drop their own administrative
control attribute, there could be a real danger of a project being left
with no administrator at all -- an untenable state of affairs.

> Please remove my admin and developer status, Ms/Mr Controller.

I'm saddened that you feel the need to distance yourself from MinGW, in
this way; indeed, I fear for the future of the project, without you at
the helm to look after GCC development. However, I'm sure that you
have your reasons, and I respect them.

I'm sure all here will wish to offer a sincere `Thank you', for all the
work you've put in during your association with MinGW. If you feel, at
some future time, that you would like to participate again, you will be
most welcome.

Thank you, for all your hard work on MinGW-GCC.

Regards and best wishes for your future endeavours,
Keith.

MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows

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