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On 22:05 Thu 07 Jun , Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Mon, 04 Jun 2012, Jorge Manuel B S Vicetto wrote: |
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> > Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2012/2013 are now open for the |
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> > next two weeks (until 23:59 UTC, 17/06/2012). |
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> Seems that somebody has to start. ;-) I nominate: |
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> betelgeuse |
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> chainsaw |
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> dberkholz |
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> grobian |
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> hwoarang |
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Thanks, Ulrich — I accept. As a brief manifesto, I have 3 reasons to run |
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for council: |
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1. Representing the Gentoo philosophy as a long-term dev (9+ years) with |
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a cool head and reasonable point of view |
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2. Making the council less of a bureaucratic blocker on progress and |
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improving its productivity |
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3. Overseeing the health of our dev and user communities |
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I believe that individual developers drive all the innovation with |
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Gentoo, and the council's role should be to get out of their way instead |
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of setting up roadblocks. |
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The importance of having people who have Gentoo's philosophy in their |
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blood can't be overstated, and this only comes from long and extensive |
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experience working within our community. Being able to apply this |
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philosophy to every council decision ensures that we stay consistent |
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with the spirit of Gentoo. |
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I've seen the council transform greatly since I took some time away from |
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the council prior to this term. There are many parts of that |
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transformation that I think need to be reversed to make Gentoo more |
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productive as a whole. Bureaucracy and general confusion are getting in |
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the way of progress on both large and small scales. |
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For example, having some kind of solution for the GLEP 55 problem has |
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*literally* dragged on for *years*. And we ended up choosing an option |
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that was out there for nearly as long as the GLEP itself. This is one |
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case where making almost any decision is better than making no decision. |
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On the smaller scale, I'm talking about problems caused by, for example, |
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the frequent rotation of chairs. This means every meeting is run by |
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someone different so there's no good continuation of issues from the |
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last meeting, and a lack of experience in moderation so we get off-topic |
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and talk too long without decisions. We should have at most a few chairs |
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who are running 3-4 months of meetings in a row. |
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Finally, something I've cared deeply about for years is the health of |
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Gentoo's developer community. We occasionally need to take action to |
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ensure it stays healthy, and fortunately we seem to be closer to the |
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peak of a cycle at the moment. But it's inevitable that we'll have |
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problems again, and we need to be prepared and ready to deal with them |
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quickly, at a council level if necessary. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Council Member / Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux <http://dberkholz.com> |
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Analyst, RedMonk <http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/> |