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Howdy, |
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since I realized that I'm one of the few who haven't posted a manifesto for |
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the council election yet, here's it. |
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First of all, for those who don't know me yet. I'm a Linux user since |
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approximately 1998 and around as a Gentoo developer since 2010. I started off |
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in the KDE team and still contribute there, though not so much anymore, mainly |
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because it is in very good hands. In the meantime, I've stepped in in various |
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places where help was needed. I'm in the office, printing and perl team. Among |
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other things I'm generating the libreoffice-bin packages, I maintain CUPS and |
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Digikam. These days I'm helping zlogene bring the Perl virtuals uptodate. Last |
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year I was elected to the council. |
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Gentoo is about choice. This is the main point that we should always remember. |
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We provide an incredible amount of flexibility to our users (both direct and |
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via our downstreams), and this flexibility is something we have to value and |
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preserve. |
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This means that an important task is to balance. |
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Between friends of exotic but slow arches and amd64 power users. |
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Between full desktop environments and server installs. (1) |
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Between providing cutting edge brand new software and rock-solid stable |
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systems. |
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Between maintainers who want absolutely noone to touch their package and tree- |
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wide necessary changes. |
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Between people who barge in and want to immediately reform everything, and |
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people who prefer that our ebuilds still work with 10 year old portage. |
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All this is best solved when people talk to each other directly and figure out |
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the solutions themselves. Unfortunately this does not always work. I see the |
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council as the institution that provides direction and helps solve all the |
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conflicts of interest that can arise. (Yes, fancy word!) |
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I think the last year has been pretty productive, and I'd like to thank all my |
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council colleagues; while obviously there are differences of opinion, it was a |
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pleasure to work together. |
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Cheers, |
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Andreas |
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(1) Trying very hard not to mention the s*****d word here. |
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Andreas K. Huettel |
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Gentoo Linux developer (council, kde) |
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dilfridge@g.o |
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http://www.akhuettel.de/ |
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