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Background |
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I became a developer in August 2006 for taking care of wxWidgets packages and |
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then quickly branched out into the GNOME team. Currently I still co-maintain |
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GNOME and wxWidgets packages, with a strong eye on the quality and technical |
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merit of the changes done to the packages. |
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In addition to Gentoo work, I participate in various upstreams with programming |
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work - GNOME and related projects from extra free time, and firmware and |
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embedded code at day-job. |
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Questions |
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1) What you will do? |
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If I am elected, I will concentrate on pushing technical advancement at the |
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global scope of the Gentoo project. Probably best explained with a few examples: |
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* Looking into ways for users (developers are also users) to more easily and |
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conveniently let us know what they are looking for in the more global sense |
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(think akin to Ubuntu blueprints or Fedora wiki "Feature" pages) - things that |
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can be considered advancements to the distribution as a whole: "Make bluetooth |
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work seamlessly when the USE flag is there", "Integrate PulseAudio perfectly |
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to the whole system when chosen with USE flags". Something really cool and |
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innovative could be suggested there, that we all could implement ;) |
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* Looking into possibilities to make maintainers work easier, for example |
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investigate into centralized maintainer tools, such as an automated missing |
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version bumps detector (we have done that in GNOME in a semi-automated way, |
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so yes, I steal the idea) |
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* And so on; you should get the idea of global scope advancements :) |
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In addition there are of course the usual things to do as a member of the |
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Council.. however we shouldn't take bullshit and concentrate on technical |
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merits and let those battle it out, not politics. |
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2) Why will you do it? |
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Because the council is a body for global technical issues and policies affecting |
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multiple projects in Gentoo, and that should also mean actually seeking and |
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finding what the global technical issues are, and getting them solved. |
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3) How will you do it? |
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Of course first a good way to push the global advancement should be found |
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amongst the whole Council and then it should be followed through - possibly |
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multiple things in parallel, as much should be offloaded to a qualified other |
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teams within Gentoo. |
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Letting the relevant more specific team (e.g user relations) take care of it, |
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help them in it as possible and oversee it all, in a somewhat mentoring role. |
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4) What is the timescale for doing it? |
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This is something that will never get done completely, as these are just |
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steps towards perfection and there are infinite steps, but we get closer (to |
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the sky?) each step. |
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5) What experience do you have with this or a similar role? |
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I've been involved in smaller projects with a role of overseeing the whole |
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projects technical well-being and direction - the kind of experience you get |
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from working on software projects for your paycheck with a team. |
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6) Why do you think you are qualified? |
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I am (too much of) a perfectionist, and Gentoo needs to start making more |
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clear steps towards that. I can push it with my 5 years of technical experience |
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to satisfy my own perfectionism :) |
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7) How you plan to balance a council role with your current Gentoo role? |
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Council takes precedence in decisions. In free time usage choices as well, as |
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reasonable (e.g, a relatively rare two day long GNOME release handling is |
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reasonable to do promptly and be done with it for all our users benefit, instead |
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of a longer ongoing council task that is not time critical - such is reality and |
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best for our users) |
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8) How much time can you dedicate to the council role |
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As much as necessary, maxing out at 1-2 hours per day average when that much |
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becomes necessary, as I do have to put food on my table and real life relax. |
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Necessary time can become available from proper priotizing of computer usage |
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(no, I don't need to read all those blogs and all the links it points to). |
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However I will be at a conference (GUADEC) abroad and catch up with things |
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(including relevant to the council matters) during July, so during that the |
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commitment is smaller, but after July I'm in full gear. |
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