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On 2020-06-22 18:18, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> Here's another question for the Council nominees. I'd like to ask |
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> the Council members to disclose their corporate affiliations, |
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> in particular whether they are employed or in partnership with companies |
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> using Gentoo or Gentoo derivatives. |
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> This is because I believe that the electorate deserves to know whether |
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> their elected Council member may end up being in conflict of interest |
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> between doing what's right by the wide community and what's requested by |
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> his employer. |
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I am getting paid to maintain a cluster running Gentoo Linux (400+ |
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machines at the moment). |
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I am not getting paid for my contribution to Gentoo. |
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I do care about keeping Gentoo useful for any professional usage. That |
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doesn't mean I don't like progress but I am not a fan of new ideas that |
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have not been thought through to the end (and yes, people who never had |
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to deal with large setups, who only maintaining their own system, have a |
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biased view and other problems like people running Gentoo on servers and |
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have to run applications they can't easily change just to adapt to some |
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new ideas). |
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But like I have written in my previous manifests for the past two years, |
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I am not running for council to pursue my own agenda/ideas. I have |
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'radical' ideas like there shouldn't be any discussions during council |
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meeting. Instead council should just vote because discussion should have |
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happen in the public (mailing list) and results should represent the |
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majority of the Gentoo community and not the opinion of individual |
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council members. |
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I would therefore rather abstain or even resign and free up my place |
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should I absolutely not be able to support a majority decision of the |
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community because this is against my own conviction. |
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Regards, |
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Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer |
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