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Am Sonntag, 16. Juni 2013, 13:24:33 schrieb Agostino Sarubbo: |
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> I'm using the same thread, I'd like to nominate: |
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> dilfridge |
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Thank you, I accept. |
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As for a manifesto.... |
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1) Let me quote GLEP 39: "If the council does a lousy job handling global |
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issues (or has no global vision), vote out the bums." Note that this talks |
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about a "global vision"? That's actually right now what Gentoo is missing |
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most. I'm not claiming that I alone will provide it, but I am convinced that |
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it's the Council's job to collectively do that. |
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1a) Consequence: the council should do more than just handing down decisions |
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on stone tablets from the mountain. I suggest we add something else that the |
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council can vote on, along the lines of a "policy recommendation". Here's an |
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example for such a recommendation, see also below: "With respect to adding |
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systemd unit files, maintainers should not refuse to cooperate as long as |
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someone volunteers to do the resulting work." Since this is a recommendation, |
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developers are free to ignore it. However, it would make the viewpoint of Your |
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Elected Council clear, and the topic may be revisited if necessary at the next |
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month's meeting for drafting up some stone tablets. |
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1b) Consequence: even if the council is a reactive body, since any developer |
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can bring issues before the council, I will be happy to do so whenever I see |
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fit, and I hope my prospective council colleagues will do the same. |
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1c) Consequence: in my opinion, the council has far too often "decided not to |
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decide anything" in the past. |
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2) I do NOT see Gentoo's primary purpose as a "metadistribution". That's just |
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a way of saying "we can't be bothered to work together". We are able to |
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provide a great distribution to our users without the additional help of |
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Funtoo, Pentoo, Sabayon, ... |
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Of course, we should continue cooperation and good working relationship with |
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our "downstreams", but that's not an excuse for NOT fixing things in Gentoo |
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itself. |
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3) I am not using systemd, zfs, or paludis. I'm even trying to avoid nepomuk |
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and akonadi. Nevertheless, as you all know, Gentoo is about choice! So, as |
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long as this does not inflict undue efforts, we should all try hard to |
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cooperate with other developers contributing to Gentoo, even if their projects |
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seem a bit odd to us. Our users deserve maximum flexibility and the offer of |
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bleeding-edge software. (The entire discussion about adding unit files to |
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packages or about how to get rid of them in the installation if not needed is |
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in my opinion just plain ridiculous.) Which gets me to... |
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4) Please remember. We're talking about a Linux distribution. This has - in |
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terms of organization - more in common with a company than with a religion! |
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(Which also means that if you try to burn someone at the stake you'll get |
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kicked out fast. As a consequence...) |
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5a) I fully support Markos' initiative to get devrel on track and more active |
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again. We *must* get away from the current abrasive culture. |
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5b) I wish we had a similar resurrection initiative for QA. Any volunteers? |
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6) I have recently volunteered to become part of devrel. Should I be elected |
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as council member, then I will let that activity rest until the end of my |
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council term. Not because I see a conflict of interests, but because I just |
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don't have the time for both. |
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Let me quote Rick's manifesto at the end, |
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"No one pays me to work on gentoo, I'm not a software developer (etc) by |
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trade, I'm here on my own because I love gentoo and I want to see it |
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improve, and I believe everyone who reads the mailing lists will agree |
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there is a lot of room for that improvement at this time." |
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Cheers! |
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Andreas |
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Dr. Andreas K. Huettel |
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Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics |
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University of Regensburg |
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D-93040 Regensburg |
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Germany |
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tel. +49 151 241 67748 (mobile) |
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e-mail andreas.huettel@××.de |
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http://www.akhuettel.de/research/ |
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http://www.physik.uni-r.de/forschung/huettel/ |