Chris Gianelloni wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 00:49 +0000, Steve Long wrote:
>> I'd also like to nominate patrick who runs gentooexperimental.org,
>> hosting amongst other things pkgcore (which cross-pollinates with
>> portage) and notTheGWN:
>> http://gentooexperimental.org/not-the-gwn/not-the-gwn-current.html
> 
> Yes, we definitely need people that were "retired" from the project to
> run our legal entity. *roll eyes*
>
Hmm ok, only he was in the eligible list and has contributed an awful lot to 
Gentoo, but not really as a technical developer over the last year or two. 
More as a business analyst imo, although he's stepped up to provide infra for 
some of the more innovative work that goes on.

> Has anybody even taken the time to stop and think about someone's actual
> *legal* capabilities before nominating them?
>
I have actually, as I would hope my other nominations would show. Have you 
ever stopped to consider that maybe you're not the best judge of qualities 
you haven't exactly displayed? Or have I missed something and you have a pool 
of qualified lawyers lined up wanting to take on this *legal* job?

> Seriously, technical achievement means *nothing* here.  This is purely a
> staff/financial/legal position we're nominating for...
> 
Yeah that takes more than just *legal* capability. It also takes managerial 
ability, as well as business expertise, both of which Patrick possesses. OFC 
these are not skills especially prevalent in the /technical/ developer pool 
as the record of your time as Trustee shows. It's the same type of skills 
that drobbins would bring, were he eligible to stand.

I believe him to be the kind of person you want helping you manage the 
organisational side of things, which requires people who can empathise and 
motivate, not snipe and whinge at every opportunity. OFC, neither you nor 
anyone else has to vote for Patrick (assuming he'd even want to stand after 
being subject to the first personal attack in this process.)
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