Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Council Nominations for 2011 to 2012

[Dane Smith]

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On 06/06/11 06:43, Markos Chandras wrote:
> On 02/06/2011 07:18 ??, Roy Bamford wrote:
>> Gentoo Community,
>
>> In a few hours from now, at Fri June 3rd 00:00:01 UTC nominations for
>> the Gentoo council will open. Nominations will remain open for a period
>> of two weeks, until Fri June 17th 00:00:01 UTC.
>> [..]
>
> I would like to nominate the following people
>
> 1) flameeyes
> 2) ssuominen
> 3) c1pher
> 4) xarthisius
> 5) dilfridge
> 6) tampakrap
>

Markos,
Thanks for the nomination. I accept.

All,
I know I'm still somewhat new to be running for Council, but I do hope
you will give me at least a little consideration. I have been active
within the project for a year as of this month, and an active dev since
October. That gives me a somewhat unique blend of knowing the culture of
the project, knowing it's problems, and still being delusional enough
that I want to try to fix some of them. Since joining I have run into a
couple things that I would like to see resolved sooner rather than later.

I have had a strong interest in Crypto for a long time (over 10 years at
this point, and I'm only 23!), and one thing that I've noticed Gentoo is
lacking is any form of security whatsoever between us, and our user
base. Given that, I'd really like to see (at the very bare minimum) GLEP
58 become a reality within the next couple months. I'd also like to see
this extended from that point to full tree signing (however, given the
state of things, we stand to gain the most security by implementing GLEP
58, so that should really get done first). I personally plan on trying
to carry this forward (regardless of the Council elections). There will
be more on this topic posted to -dev when I get everything I want to say
coherent enough that I won't sound like a babbling idiot.

The next thing I would like to see addressed is some of the current
"team" problems. It is imperative for this project to have good working
QA and DevRel teams. We are honestly zilch of a project if we are
constantly breaking things / failing to even remotely work together.
However, as is very easily seen by the current situation that apparently
it is going to take "Council Appointments" for lead positions before
these teams will be able to operate correctly without people forever
questioning their right to do so. There were a number of proposals along
this line at [1].

Lastly, git. It needs to happen. It's no magic bullet, by I really would
love to have the whole repository on my own ruddy machine. Need I say more?

So, for those that want to tl;dr; this:
Summary:
1) GLEP 58-61.
2) Consider QA/DevRel "Team Lead Appointments" or something similar.
3) Git.

Thanks for your time! Feel free to question anything!

[1]
http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_e1fd66dc60b2e361950f0c3521eb84ab.xml

Regards,
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Dane Smith (c1pher)
Gentoo Linux Developer -- QA / Crypto / Sunrise / x86
RSA Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=0x0C2E1531&op=index
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