Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Council 2020 / 2021 election - Nominations Now Open

[Patrick Lauer]

On 2020-06-17 22:39, Patrick Lauer wrote:
> On 2020-06-17 10:57, Fabian Groffen wrote:
>> I nominate (apologies in advance for any duplicates):
> [...]
>> patrick
>
> I accept the nomination
>

So people may or may not want or want not a manifesto.

Instead I offer you a "20 years of Gentoo" Codeswarm video:

http://gentooexperimental.org/~patrick/codeswarm2020.mp4
(x265, 1080p, CC BY-NC 4.0 )

Looking at that I'd say Gentoo, as a whole, is doing pretty ok.

Council hasn't had much to decide on the last months, and I think that's 
a good thing.
Personally I've not had that much time, between personal issues and work 
it's been unexpectedly exciting. And the time I have for gentoo things 
mostly gets budgeted by others.
(I have a faint hope that this may change, but no guarantees ...)

I don't appreciate the deletionists who want to rip out everything 
that's older than 6 weeks and not on Github, but that's their thing and 
who am I to judge. It it were up to me we would spend more time on 
making Gentoo boring so that we have time for the really interesting 
things instead of trying to rewrite everything and have constant churn 
and maximal entropy.

We haven't had a new EAPI in a while. I hope it stays that way, and we 
might even reduce the amount of active EAPIs even more so that there's 
fewer surprises (pop quiz: what's the difference between EAPI 3 and EAPI 
4?).
Boring is good. Complexity is the enemy.

I have lots of opinions, so if you don't vote you increase the risk that 
I get voted into the council again and you'll have to tolerate said 
opinions. Every voter can do their contribution to influence the result, 
so do the patriotic thing and vote.


Be excellent to each other,

Patrick