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Council Manifesto of Georgy Yakovlev, 2021 [0] |
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Hi, |
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I sincerely care about Gentoo project, it's developers and users, and would |
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like to help make it better as a council member this term. |
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About myself (mostly bragging): |
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I've been an active Gentoo user since 2003, contributor since 2017, and a |
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developer since 2018. |
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I maintain a friendly attitude, am approachable, and take valid criticism calmly |
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with no drama or excessive emotions. I'm aware of what's happening in the |
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gentoo developer community. |
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During my time as contributor I have made almost 4000 meaningful commits |
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in gentoo namespace and several hundreds more outside of it. |
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I maintain some critical software packages like zfs, rust, jdk, some |
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packages with less blast radius as well, and some eclasses. |
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I'm also part of RelEng, helping with ppc64 releases and build host maintenance. |
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Last year this is what we've gained in ppc64 world: |
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* Working KDE/Plasma and GNOME along with corresponding profiles. |
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* qtwebegine patchset for ppc64le, and for Chromium as well. |
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* I've ported Gentoo to ppc64-musl, for both little-endian and big-endian. |
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stages are provided on regular basis via official channels. |
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* and last, but not least, we now have a ppc64le installer iso, which supports |
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2 kernel flavors, for 4K and 64K PAGESZ. |
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In the dist-kernel project I've worked on tests, some minor things, and recently |
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I've added a hardened useflag, i.e., a selection of security oriented settings |
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that can be enabled with little to no effort from users. Further, I helped the |
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kernel project to gain a similar setting in gentoo-sources' Kconfig. |
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On other fronts, I'm a ComRel member since April 2020, and have been in a |
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council for 2 years in a row. |
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I think council should be: |
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1) Open |
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2) Proactive as well, not only reactive |
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3) Less words, more action overall |
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* Problems current/last council had: |
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Internal tensions - usual for Gentoo tendency to discuss minor issues in |
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ridiculous detail or disagreements for sake of disagreements. |
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There is not much I can do about it personally, but I hope developers will elect |
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next council members more carefully. |
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Skim council meeting logs before making a choice and see it yourself. |
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Being on ComRel as well, I know how a team can work efficiently. Current ComRel, |
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despite being composed of people of VERY different backgrounds and cultures, is |
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surprisingly smooth those days. I want the council to be more like it. |
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* Reactivity, not proactivity: |
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A single person can actually make an impact here. I will try to identify and see |
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upcoming problems or solutions in advance and push council and/or community |
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in the right direction. |
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* Personal: |
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My failure to upload several meeting summaries in time due to technical |
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difficulties on my side (dead HD with logs) and failure to find an |
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alternative solution on time. |
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But it has been resolved and I have a way to prevent it from happening again. |
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Work Disclosure: |
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I'm still employed by Sony, but work I do there is not related to Gentoo. |
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Please feel free to ask questions if you have any. |
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Best regards, |
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Georgy |
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[0] https://dev.gentoo.org/~gyakovlev/council-manifesto-gyakovlev-2021.txt |
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