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On Thu, August 18, 2005 00:10, Lina Pezzella wrote: |
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>>> Sounds like you guys are going to do this regardless, so why wait |
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>>> a week? |
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> We were hoping to give others a chance to announce candidacy. As per |
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> my discussion on IRC with kito, if Fabian doesn't object, we will be |
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> changing the election position to "Lead" and running as partners (co- |
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> leads) rather than staying with the traditional strategic/operational |
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> titles. We feel that the time commitment for the lead position would |
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> be better met as a team due to our existing school and work |
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> commitments. Kito suggested the name switch on the basis that the |
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> "strategic" lead isn't going to be dictating long-term goals with a |
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> project team as small as ours. |
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Hmmm, k. I can understand the time consumption thing. So if I understand |
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correctly one of you two is going to be "Lead" and the other "Co-Lead" |
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which is only a thing on a golden plate, but in the end results in sharing |
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the "Lead" work as appropriate between you two. That's ok with me. |
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> My impression via our IRC conversation (and kito, please please |
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> correct me if I'm wrong), is that kito wanted a senior gentoo |
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> developer to take the project lead position. |
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> As we currently don't |
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> have a senior gentoo developer with the project, he felt it would be |
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> better to wait for one to come along. |
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Hehe.... isn't kito senior enough? :) :p Compared to me almost everything |
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is senior. :p |
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> ... We need someone that's |
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> been with the Gentoo for Mac OS X project long enough to know the |
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> difficulties it faces and where it's come from. |
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Good point. |
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> As for the need for the title, it is necessary for a variety of reasons: |
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> 1) Recruitment - we can bring new devs on, but making staffing |
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> announcements has been a battle without the title. After much |
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> convincing with devrel, I got them to put up a one sentence staffing |
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> call for the project only because Pieter (pvdabeel) has been pretty |
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> publicly absent with regards to Gentoo for Mac OS X. |
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I assume this will change as soon as this thing becomes reality. |
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> I'll recap the most important points. Please see our original e-mail |
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> post for the details. |
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> 1) Recruitment/Staffing |
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> 2) Documenting and initiating discussion on project policy |
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> 3) Address PR - BugDay, Updated Documentation, Project Page |
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Ok. |
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