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On 6/17/13 2:45 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: |
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> In addition to some of the already nominated people, I would like to |
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> also add Phajdan.Jr and tomwij (I think they hasn't been nominated yet.. |
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> but maybe I lost some mail :/ ) |
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Thank you, Pacho. I accept the nomination. |
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You can find my manifesto from 2012 at |
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<http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/msg_a6c0547449a675e6b2579ce4d7cba2dc.xml> |
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and I think it still expresses my opinions well. |
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With more and more understanding of how FOSS development differs from |
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software development for a living, my approach to role of the council |
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could be also described as laissez-faire. |
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Most of the work is done by developers making commits, not by people |
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bikeshedding on -dev or even the council. Even though many additions to |
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recent EAPIs or portage are not perfect (say slot operator deps or |
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preserve-libs), making them available for wider use is a big improvement |
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that also enables further revisions and experimentation based on |
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experiences of how they perform in practice that we wouldn't have |
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otherwise. Even though some of the caveats of these solutions have been |
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predicted by some people (which I find valuable), usually the real |
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consequences and effects are more convincing to most people. |
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I am pro-innovation big time, and I wouldn't wait for things to be |
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perfect before making them available. However, I'm striving for high |
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quality bar in Gentoo, from testing reverse dependencies before |
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stabilizations and automating the process, to well-maintained (also |
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thanks to the team) Chromium and related packages in the tree. |
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I try to stay away from the flames du jour of gentoo-dev. FYI I'm not |
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using systemd on my system, mostly because sysv init works well enough |
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for me now. I can totally see myself installing systemd in the future if |
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it happens to work for me better for any reason. I think there is a |
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place both for people who want to use it and who don't want, and I think |
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both of these opinions can be reasonable, including strong opinions. |
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Note that to make that work in practice, some compromises may be needed, |
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e.g. using INSTALL_MASK to avoid installing unwanted files. |
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Paweł |
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