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Hello all, |
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For those of you who do not know me, I have been a Gentoo developer |
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since 2004 and the primary maintainer of OpenRC for a number of years. I |
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am also a member of base-system, qa and the udev team. |
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Below is my manifesto for this election. |
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* I fully agree with Andreas's manifesto; I would support the goals he |
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has for Gentoo as well. |
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* Gentoo needs consistency in terms of policies. For example, right now |
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we have https://devmanual.gentoo.org and |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Policies. The qa |
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policies page contradicts some things in the developer manual, so there |
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is no clear way to point to the official policies. |
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* The Gentoo Code of Conduct still needs to be revisited. We started |
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that process this term, but it was not completed. |
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* The council should only be asked to make a decision on an issue when |
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the issue cannot be settled by the community itself. As it has been said |
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by others, the council should do what it can to stay out |
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of the way of innovations, which should come from the developers. |
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* When the council is asked to make a decision, it should be fully |
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informed about both sides of the issue before it votes. On the other |
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hand, the council should not block progress by taking an extremely long |
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time to make a decision. |
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* We can learn from the past and improve upon it. Continuing |
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to do things like we have in the past is not a bad thing in itself. |
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However, using what we have done in the past to block change can be. I |
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understand that people are used to doing things a certain way. However, |
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that alone is not justification for continuing to do things the same way |
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in the future. if we need to make a change, we should make sure that |
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change is backward compatible with what we have, or if this is not |
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possible, provides the smoothest possible transition for our users. |
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Since the council doesn't maintain all of the packages, the council is |
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not going to know the technical details of how to make either of these |
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happen, so I don't feel that the council should mandate specific |
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implementations.? |
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Thanks much for your time, and please participate in the election. |
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William |
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