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On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:33:34 +0100
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Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@g.o> wrote:
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> On 2008.06.05 01:00, Ćukasz Damentko wrote: |
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> > Hi guys, |
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> > Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009 are open now and will be |
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> > open for the next two weeks (until 23:59 UTC, 18/06/2008). |
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> Team, |
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> I don't want to nominate anyone who hasn't been nominated already. |
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> I would like to address all the candidates who have or will accept |
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> council nominations. |
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> 1. Please tell us how/if you plan to fix GLEP 39. (You may not consider |
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> it broken) |
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Mostly it's not broken. However, I think the intent of the rule
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"If any meeting has less than 50% attendance by council members,..."
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is to prevent the council from meeting without a quorum. If at a
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meeting they don't have a quorum and thus don't meet, I'd consider that
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to be a non-meeting and treat those who did not make it just as "absent"
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under normal meeting rules.
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> 2. As one of the first priorities will be setting policy for pending |
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> appeals what policy do you propose ? |
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Any developer making an appeal would explain why the appeal should be
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successful using any information he chooses, then Council would decide
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(deny, grant on the merits, grant on procedural grounds, whatever).
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I'd also add two new requirements:
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1. Any appeal must be heard and decided within xxx days;
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2. Any Council member who is on record as to the merits of the action
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being appealed could not take part in the appeal process unless the
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developer making the appeal allows it. Probably this would mean a
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discussion between that developer and the Council.
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Of course Council members have opinions of devrel actions, but I think
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it creates a potential conflict of interest if they broadcast them.
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> 3. If you are not on the council already, how will you make time for |
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> the extra work? |
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I already have the time, really. Although I am a member of several
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projects in Gentoo, right now only Trustees require much time.
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> 4. How do you think the council and trustees can work together to make |
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> Gentoo better? |
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> Not just the code base but the cooperative environment we all work |
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> together in too. |
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> Disclosure - I have a personal interest in responses as a trustee. |
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I'm already a trustee, so having a council member who is a trustee is
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a start.
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Trustees and Council together are responsible for the smooth working
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of Gentoo, but with largely complementary areas of authority. So I
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think the two groups should begin by looking for places they both can
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usefully contribute and work to put cooperation there in place (Code
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of Conduct comes to mind because it applies to the entire community
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but Council is pretty much limited to developers). Then set out to
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put such cooperation in place.
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There's a lot of hand-waving in that statement because I don't have
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any specific mechanism for carrying it out in mind.
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Another idea is to sit down and look at just what Gentoo's business
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model is. We know there is one because the Foundation owns things
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like trademarks or funds (as it must because you have to have some
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sort of legal entity in place to do that). But the Foundation is not
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much involved directly in performing technical guidance, say (although
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I can think of cases where it might be). I personally think it makes
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sense to look at bringing the two closer together to look more like a
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traditional business (although this is perhaps a minority view). For
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our continued health I think we have to work toward this goal.
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> 5. Tell us a little about yourself - the skills and experience you can |
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> bring to the council? |
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I've been around for a long time in the business world as a developer,
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manager, and lawyer. (I might actually be Gentoo's oldest
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developer.)
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I've been a Gentoo developer for a bit more than 4 years. In
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Gentoo I'm sparc (architecture) lead, a trustee, and a member of devrel
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and userrel. I am no longer all that strong technically, but
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I think I have a pretty good feel for how the software development
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process works. And both within Gentoo and in the real world I have
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spent a lot of time working with people in areas like mediation or
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management. So I guess I'd say I'm a "people oriented" person with a
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reasonable understanding of the development process, but certainly not
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Gentoo's strongest technical person.
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> 6. Tell us one outstanding (in your own mind) contribution you made to |
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> Gentoo in the last year. |
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I am happiest with my part in making the Foundation legal
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again. I was elected sparc lead and elected to the trustees, but I
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hardly view those as contributions.
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> Any candidate who does not have time/interest to prepare a manifesto |
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> addressing the above and anything else they want to say to the |
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> electorate will have a hard time convincing me that they have the time/ |
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> interest to undertake the duties of a council member. |
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> I look forward to seeing links to your manifestos on |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/voting-logs/council-2008- |
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> nominees.xml |
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I'll provide a link in the next week or so. Most likely to a link to a
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text file in d.g.o/~fmccor/
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> - -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Roy Bamford |
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> (NeddySeagoon) a member of |
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> gentoo-ops |
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> forum-mods |
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> treecleaners |
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> trustees |
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> For the avoidance of doubt, I write as an individual developer and not |
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> on behalf of any project I may be a member of. |
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> gentoo-dev@l.g.o mailing list |
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Hope this helps,
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Regards,
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Ferris
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o>
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Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel, Userrel, Trustees)
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