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added hkBst and ulm as nominees, moved wolf31o2 to declined section and added dev-zero's manifesto |
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1.1 xml/htdocs/proj/en/council/voting-logs/nominees/2008/dev-zero.txt |
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file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/council/voting-logs/nominees/2008/dev-zero.txt?rev=1.1&view=markup |
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plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/council/voting-logs/nominees/2008/dev-zero.txt?rev=1.1&content-type=text/plain |
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Index: dev-zero.txt |
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Background |
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In September 2006 I became a developer after writing a lot of ebuilds in |
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the Gentoo Sunrise project and helping with the postgresql ebuilds. |
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Currently I'm responsible for packages in the herds samba, cpp, python, |
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sysadmin and postgresql. Furthermore I'm a member of the gentoo python |
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project and a glep-editor. |
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Besides my Gentoo development work I also organize the Gentoo booth at the |
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OpenExpo in Switzerland twice a year. |
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Questions. |
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1) What you will do? |
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First I'll try to clean up our structure and write down clearly what we have, |
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who's responsible for what and how the workflows are. You might also consider |
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the GLEPs I've written as an example for what I'm trying to achive. |
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2) Why you will do it |
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Because I think we can't grow in a sane way anymore without having at least |
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general policies written down. I don't want to over-regularize Gentoo but I |
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got the impression in the last few months that we loose a lot of time |
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discussing the same questions over and over again and that we're blocked by |
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non-existent or -- even worse -- seemingly existing policies like GLEP 39. |
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3) How you will do it? |
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To keep it open and fair I'll probably do a lot of things via GLEPs. |
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But even if I do believe that many things should be written down I think that we |
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should never stop talking about issues. Policies are not meant to be written |
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in stone, they're alive and should be revised from time to time (and we should |
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not first need a catastrophe for that to happen). So I think it's not the |
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council's sole responsability to generate improvements (the council is rather |
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the legislature) but it's the people (users and developers alike) who should |
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come up with improvements. |
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4) What is the timescale for doing it? |
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A half year until we get the organizational problems resolved. Another half |
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year to speed up development again. |
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5) What experience do you have with this or a similar role? |
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While studying I currently work as a CIO in small company (~30 |
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people). In highschool I was president of the students organization for |
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1.5 years. |
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6) Why do you think you are qualified? |
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I'm dedicated and consequent. I have know-how as a leader (see above) but I |
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also consider myself a good team player. |
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7) How you plan to balance a council role with your current Gentoo role? |
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Council decisions have absolute priority. Once the decision has been made the |
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council members have to represent the decision as their own even if they don't |
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like it. |
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8) How much time can you dedicate to the council role |
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What is needed. In case it takes more I'll first put my pet projects on hold. |
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