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On 06/14/12 08:05, Patrick Lauer wrote: |
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> On 06/08/12 11:22, Ben de Groot wrote: |
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>> I would like to nominate patrick. |
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> Thanks Ben. |
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> I accept the nomination. Manifest following Really Soon Now ;) |
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> Take care, |
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> Patrick |
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I hope everyone is voting, because otherwise you can't complain later ;) |
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Last few years turnout was consistently low, which is not really nice imo. |
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as posted here [1], I've written up a short Manifesto. |
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Here's a copy for those of you who don't want to open yet another |
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browser tab: |
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The Janitor's Manifesto |
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Most of what I do is cleaning up. Fighting entropy. Removing bugs so we |
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can have the best distribution there is. And because there just never |
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are enough hours in a day I like to find replacements for me. Recruit |
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new people to do what I did so I can find the next problem. |
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I wont stop doing that. |
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Most of the things we do are outside the sphere of influence of the |
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council. We get at least 90% of our Gentoo-work done without needing |
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anyone to nudge us in the right direction. But it's the rest of our |
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troubles that needs lots of discussion and motivation to find the most |
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effective solution to our issues. |
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I'm an opinionated muppet. But my opinions are usually based on |
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experience. And when I see a bad idea I'm not going to tolerate it |
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because it might upset your feelings. Deal with it ;) But I guess people |
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are aware that I'm, uhm, "polarizing". And getting me into the Council |
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will make it a lot easier for me to punch stupid ideas until they go |
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away. Like, say, the zombie GLEPs 54/55 that have been summoned back for |
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about 2 years until people slowly got the idea that they won't be |
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tolerated. (Amusingly we now finally have the "EAPI at beginning of |
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file" rule that obsoletes it. So it goes.) |
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Independent of what you vote I'll continue doing what I do - try to |
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recruit people, do random build experiments across the tree for fun, |
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file bugs ... it won't get boring soon. So much to do ... but it'll be a |
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tiny bit easier for me if I'm councilerated. |
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Here's a rough list of things that would be nice to have, in |
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approximately ascending order of difficulty: |
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* deprecate EAPIs so that only 0 and latest are in use |
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* Signing policies - keyring, key type, etc. Make it make sense. |
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* PR: make people notice us again. GWN revival, articles for LWN, etc. |
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* Tools and automation: Make it easy to be lazy. Get more done in less |
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time |
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* Recruitment: assimilation of derived distros (pentoo, TinHat, |
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Sabayon, funtoo, calculate) and others (Slackware, OpenSUSE, FreeBSD ?) |
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* Recruitment: make it easy for people to contribute, and as soon as |
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they do don't let them leave |
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* Stop the Windowsification (offline updates?!) and MacOSification |
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(systemd, /usr move, initrd as everything, trollolololooooo) |
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* Be Awesome |
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Take care, |
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Patrick |
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[1] |
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http://gentooexperimental.org/~patrick/weblog/archives/2012-06.html#e2012-06-26T07_44_19.txt |
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