Dawes is not the only person who has been annoyed by this issue; on looking through the GNOME Foundation's mailing lists, one finds complaint after complaint. For instance, in January last year, Jordi Mas had this to say: "For more than three months I have been sending e-mail messages to the current GNOME Planet editor Jeff Waugh but I got no answer. I also tried to contact him in the gnome-hackers chat channel but the only answer that I got was "I'll look into that", but nothing never happened."

Following the issue makes for some interesting reading. Corey Burger continued the same thread asking, on February 3: "Jeff, If you are crazy busy, as you usually are, can we get somebody else in on the maintenance of planet?" Davyd Madeley chimed in: "I would like to see a team (perhaps lead (sic) by Jeff?) formed to take responsibility for Planet." And Claudio Saavedra added: "As far as I understand, there are tasks which could be separated, and would ease the Planet maintenance...", after which he went into detail about how the work could be separated.

There was no response from Waugh for the entire month. And there the issue lay for seven months, until September last year.

It was resurrected in a different thread by Ekiga developer Damien Sandras, who was apparently upset by what he referred to as "the way some people *control* that community, even if they never contributed anything back to it." The community referred to was GNOME.

Sandras had a couple of complaints, one about the delay in a project member getting an account on Subversion (SVN, the version control software used by the GNOME project), and the other about delays in getting a blog added to the Planet. About the latter he wrote: "When I think to (sic) Julien, I am also getting mad. He has been contributing to Ekiga for 5 years. He recently created a blog and asked to (sic) Jeff to be added on planet.gnome.org. He was first ignored, then Jeff told him that he had to post often to be added. One day later, another guy was added to planet.gnome.org with 3 posts having been done in a 6 months period. That is what I call dictatorship and boycott of my project."