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On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 6:07 AM, Alexander Berntsen <bernalex@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 18/07/14 05:06, Richard Yao wrote: |
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>> I felt that posting a platform before someone asked would be |
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>> inappropriate, so I made the conscious decision to wait for a |
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>> single person to ask before posting anything. No one asked, so I |
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>> posted nothing. |
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> People are likely inclined to take this as either arrogance or |
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> nonchalance -- i.e. like you could take a council position or leave |
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> it. Please post something next time. You will likely be higher on my |
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> list if you will. |
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Live and learn... |
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Don't take rankings too personally. The algorithm has to stick |
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something at the top, and something at the bottom, and it isn't like |
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we have tons of dead wood on the ballot. Having somebody who |
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genuinely cares about Gentoo and wants to contribute coming in last |
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was a fairly likely outcome as a result. |
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Definitely don't take election results as some kind of judgement of |
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the work you're doing. Writing ebuilds, designing package managers, |
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being on Comrel, being a Trustee, being on Infra, and being on QA are |
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all very different roles - just to pick some examples. People look |
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for different things when voting about one vs the other. Also, most |
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who were elected were incumbents, and not being an incumbent isn't |
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something that anybody new can do anything about. |
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Just keep doing good work! The nice thing about Gentoo is that |
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anybody who wants to step up and take things in a new direction can do |
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so fairly easily as long as it doesn't impact the average experience. |
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Rich |
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