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On 7/1/22 20:58, John Helmert III wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 01:28:51PM -0500, John Helmert III wrote: |
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>> Gentoo is a community project. The health of a community project |
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>> relies on being controlled by that community. Many developers, and |
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>> even council nominees, have employers who many may see as not having |
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>> the best interest of open source communities at heart. Note that I do |
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>> *not* think that one's employer makes them less valuable as a |
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>> contributor, or even that developers employed by certain companies are |
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>> unsuitable to be on council. Still, I think that it's important to |
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>> keep in mind any potential conflicts of interest between Gentoo and |
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>> one's employer. |
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>> Thus, I have these questions for nominees: |
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>> Does your employer use Gentoo?If elected to council, could this |
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>> produce a conflict of interest between your employer and Gentoo? If |
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Yes, my employer does use Gentoo. I work in a small Croatian company |
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that focuses on embedded Linux development. We |
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use Gentoo in one of our projects, a custom build system for embedded |
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devices (something similar to OpenWRT and Yocto). |
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However, I am working on a different project (with different OS and |
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tooling) since early this year, so I don't see any possible conflicts |
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happening there (even if I do work on it again I doubt any conflicts |
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would arise as my Gentoo work there revolved around merely upstreaming |
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bug fixes we encountered while using Gentoo). |
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All of my Gentoo contributions related with my day job were various |
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improvements (e.g. updating an outdated package, adding support for |
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missing useful features or packages, fixing cross-compilation bugs, |
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etc.) so I believe these changes were useful to the whole community and |
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not just my company. We also have a local overlay for all packages |
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and patches that don't make sense having in ::gentoo. |
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>> so, how would you handle the conflict? |
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I'd never deliberately make changes or influence decisions that would be |
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detrimental to Gentoo. |
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If elected to Council and ever find myself in a situation where conflict |
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harmful to Gentoo is unavoidable, I will resign from my Council position. |
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> I'll start: I currently have no employer and thus can answer these |
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> questions with "N/A". |
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Jakov |
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