Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Council 2020 / 2021 Election - Questions for Candidates

[Max Magorsch]

I, for one, do see the Gentoo Council as an opportunity to actively
work on ideas to improve the whole distribution as well as the
developer experience for everyone. I agree with others, who have
already mentioned that the Council should not just come up with ideas
and enforce them afterwards. Instead, the ideas should be discussed
publicly. Because after all, everything the Council does should serve
the distribution and the community. So in sum, I imagine the Council
to help to identify currently existing problems, look for possible
solutions and afterwards discuss them with the community.
Apart from that, I also see the opportunity for the Council to promote
Gentoo at different events to get recruits and help understaffed
projects as Brian also already mentioned.

Before I continue to concretize this thought, a few words about my
work for Gentoo, for everyone who does not know me: I have mainly been
working on developer services and the infrastructure within Gentoo so
far. For instance, I'm one of the persons to blame for problems with
packages.g.o, planet.g.o, mirrorstats.g.o, the new archivestest.g.o or
the like. Apart from that, I'm working on the second version of the
Tyrian theme to unify our outer appearance, and I'm doing some further
internal infrastructure work. Finally, I am also still working towards
a unified code and automation platform like Gitlab or Gitea (in
combination with another automation platform).

So how do I concretely imagine my work for the Council? Should I be
elected, my idea for the Council is to identify and document the
status quo first. That is, what are we already doing well and what
might be currently existing problems. Afterwards, I would like to help
to find possible solutions for the existing problems and discuss them
publicly.
One concrete project I would especially like to move forward is the
unified code and automation platform I've already mentioned above.

That's my vision for the Council and the reason I have accepted the
nomination. Other candidates might have different views. However, if
you share mine, I am looking forward to getting down to action and
start working on it during the next year.

-M