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On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 20:25:15 +0100 |
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Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@g.o> wrote: |
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> Team, |
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> Its been my impression that this last years council has had a fairly |
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> easy life compared to previous years. |
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> Some context ... |
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> The council is now 15 years old. Some concepts were worked out |
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> over a few beers at FOSDEM 2005, formalised over the next six |
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> months and the first council met in quarter 4 2005. |
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> I have memories of the council being set up as a disputes |
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> resolution body, not a leadership body but that was 15 years ago. |
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> Some questions ... |
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> 1. What do candidates see the councils role as in Gentoo today? |
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Since I have been around Gentoo since before the council was formed. I |
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do not see it really any different than it is currently. It's primary |
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role is to help steer Gentoo when competeing technologies come to |
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fruition that can not be implemented side by side. Make decisions on a |
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direction to aim for future and evolving policies. |
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> 2. How do candidates see the role of the Gentoo council |
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> changing in the short term .. say the next few years? |
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Barring any issues, policiy changes, etc. to be worked out. We should |
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be working on other ways to help Gentoo progess and evolve. Be it |
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helping poorly staffed projects get recruits. Promoting Gentoo at |
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meetups, or initiating new dialog on shelved ideas, inactive/incomplete |
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GLEPs... or establishing more automation helpers so that more developer |
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time can spent on imrpoving Gentoo rather than just trying to maintain |
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the status quo. |
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> 3. Why is this role change required? |
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I don't think of the previous answer as a role change. But something |
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that should have been always there for council members. Just a lower |
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priority when technical issues are needed to be dealt with. |
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> 4. How will candidates work to bring this change about during |
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> their term of office, should they be elected? |
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I intend to work towards establishing some addtional services that can |
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help with keywording, pkg bumping, stage building/testing. Personally |
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I have experience with buildbot. But if anyone comes to me with |
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experience with other build/automation systems and ides how it may help |
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Gentoo. Provided that it meets our guidelines, I will research those |
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and do what I can to make those projects come to fruition. |
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> Please start new threads for new questions, |
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