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Hi! |
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I'd like to represent Gentoo developers and the overall community in the 2021-2022 Gentoo Council. |
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Let me have a go at persuading you. |
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I've noticed some common themes during discussions. I've noticed a tendency to defer debate - which, on individual topics, |
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may seem reasonable at the time, but with a wider perspective, becomes problematic. I feel the council should have its eyes |
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on moving Gentoo forward. |
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One _forges_ consensus, it doesn't develop naturally, especially in a large project like ours. I want the council to be |
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front-and-centre in discussions about the future, not just the "boring last formality". |
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I consider myself in touch with various parts of the project; I don't just maintain my packages. My main philosophy is |
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'user-centric'. I keep an eye on bugs which are affecting users, I'm prominent in #gentoo (one of our main support venues). |
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I know what's bothering our userbase and I work to fix it. |
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Technical correctness? That's important to me (you can look at some of my commits for that), but so is being useful, |
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and keeping Gentoo practical (and fun for many of our users) to use! Sometimes we have to find a middle ground |
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between those and that's okay. If I had to give myself a 2-word bio, it'd be "ruthless pragmatist". |
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I *hope* I've managed to get across within my time in Gentoo so far that I care about fixing things. I care about |
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things working. I care about reaching compromise. I've mediated plenty of times between plenty of developers and |
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helped to reach a conclusion which everyone can be happy with. |
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Finally, if I haven't yet persuaded you enough to kindly include me on your ballot, you're very welcome to |
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message me publicly or privately with any questions you have. |
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best, |
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sam |
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[Link: https://dev.gentoo.org/~sam/txt/2021-council-manifesto.txt] |