| 1 |
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Tony "Chainsaw" Vroon |
| 2 |
<chainsaw@g.o> wrote: |
| 3 |
> On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 22:05 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
| 4 |
>> chainsaw |
| 5 |
> |
| 6 |
> Thank you Ulrich. I accept. |
| 7 |
> |
| 8 |
> My manifest for this election follows: |
| 9 |
> |
| 10 |
> I am a firm believer in the UNIX philosophy of multiple interlocking |
| 11 |
> small components. Each only performs a very specific, small task and |
| 12 |
> does that job very well. This is well suited to an open source |
| 13 |
> environment, where a maintainer has "scratched an itch", found his/her |
| 14 |
> niche and takes pride in the smooth running of their individual gear[1] |
| 15 |
> in the bigger machine. |
| 16 |
> In my day job, I depend on these UNIX machines and have trained people |
| 17 |
> in carefully replacing these gears as the machines run. It has become |
| 18 |
> apparent that this way of life is under threat, and I would like to |
| 19 |
> protect it. |
| 20 |
> |
| 21 |
> There is a push to pull all of the gears out of my UNIX machine and |
| 22 |
> replace it with a harmonic drive[2]. I am told that it has less play and |
| 23 |
> higher torque, and with only one component it is much easier to maintain |
| 24 |
> if I only forget all I know about UNIX machines, throw all our custom |
| 25 |
> gear sets away and retrain my staff in strain wave gearing instead. |
| 26 |
> I am sorry to have to point out that we have invested significant effort |
| 27 |
> in getting our gear shufflers to the level they are today, and that we |
| 28 |
> depend on our lovingly hand-crafted gear ratios to get us the |
| 29 |
> performance that we require. Reducing us down to exactly three gears[3] |
| 30 |
> may make a harmonic drive conversion a lot easier, but our ideal speed |
| 31 |
> happens to be reached on four right now! |
| 32 |
> |
| 33 |
> [1] program |
| 34 |
> [2] systemd |
| 35 |
> [3] /usr merge |
| 36 |
> |
| 37 |
> Regards, |
| 38 |
> Tony "Chainsaw" Vroon |
| 39 |
> |
| 40 |
> P.S. You are most welcome to join me on IRC or e-mail me privately about |
| 41 |
> my strong yet controversial opinions. However, I hope that you recognise |
| 42 |
> yourself in the story above. Whether you make gears, (re)place them or |
| 43 |
> simply depend on the output of a UNIX machine... |
| 44 |
|
| 45 |
The Council election nomination status page [1] is up if you want to |
| 46 |
stay informed. Their manifest / platform is linked to their real name. |
| 47 |
|
| 48 |
Regards, |
| 49 |
David |
| 50 |
|
| 51 |
[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/elections/council/2012/council-201206-nominees.xml |
| 52 |
|
| 53 |
-- |
| 54 |
David Abbott (dabbott) |
| 55 |
Gentoo |
| 56 |
http://dev.gentoo.org/~dabbott/ |
Archives