[gentoo-council] I'm resigning

[gentoo-council] I'm resigning

[Donnie Berkholz]

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After thinking about it for a couple of weeks, I've decided to resign 
from the council. I think the management and unification provided by the 
council is critical, but I just don't have the time to commit on a 
regular basis that's necessary to do a good job. I'm trying to finish my 
Ph.D. and applying for postdoctoral fellowships, and along with my new 
daughter, that means I can't promise any regular commitment of time.

Instead, I expect to spend what Gentoo time I have thinking and talking 
about our future direction and working to innovate rather than managing 
that innovation. I have the utmost confidence that others can fill my 
place on the council. Therefore, it's more important for me to focus on 
innovation, which I feel is driven by individual developers, including 
me. I'm very excited to restart working on projects that I've mostly 
dropped because of my council commitment, such as helping with the git 
conversion, spending more time on PR, and finishing the test-suite 
framework for eclasses, among other things.

I'm still available for advice about anything council-related, so feel 
free to ask at any point.

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com

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Re: [gentoo-council] I'm resigning

[Tiziano Müller]

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Hi Donnie

Thanks a lot for the work you've done for the Council and Gentoo as a
whole. I can fully understand your motivations, although it's a pity to
see you leave so shortly before the end of terms.

Good luck with the other Gentoo projects and your private life.

Cheers,
Tiziano

Am Montag, den 25.05.2009, 22:09 -0700 schrieb Donnie Berkholz:
> After thinking about it for a couple of weeks, I've decided to resign 
> from the council. I think the management and unification provided by the 
> council is critical, but I just don't have the time to commit on a 
> regular basis that's necessary to do a good job. I'm trying to finish my 
> Ph.D. and applying for postdoctoral fellowships, and along with my new 
> daughter, that means I can't promise any regular commitment of time.
> 
> Instead, I expect to spend what Gentoo time I have thinking and talking 
> about our future direction and working to innovate rather than managing 
> that innovation. I have the utmost confidence that others can fill my 
> place on the council. Therefore, it's more important for me to focus on 
> innovation, which I feel is driven by individual developers, including 
> me. I'm very excited to restart working on projects that I've mostly 
> dropped because of my council commitment, such as helping with the git 
> conversion, spending more time on PR, and finishing the test-suite 
> framework for eclasses, among other things.
> 
> I'm still available for advice about anything council-related, so feel 
> free to ask at any point.

-- 
Tiziano Müller
Gentoo Linux Developer, Council Member
Areas of responsibility:
  Samba, PostgreSQL, CPP, Python, sysadmin, GLEP Editor
E-Mail   : dev-zero@gentoo.org
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Re: [gentoo-council] I'm resigning

[Donnie Berkholz]

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On 08:10 Tue 26 May     , Tiziano Müller wrote:
> Hi Donnie
> 
> Thanks a lot for the work you've done for the Council and Gentoo as a
> whole. I can fully understand your motivations, although it's a pity to
> see you leave so shortly before the end of terms.
> 
> Good luck with the other Gentoo projects and your private life.

My hope is that this gives someone else who might run for the next term 
a chance for some experience to learn what it's like...

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com

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Re: [gentoo-council] I'm resigning

[Roy Bamford]

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On 2009.05.26 06:09, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> After thinking about it for a couple of weeks, I've decided to resign 
> from the council. I think the management and unification provided by
> the 
> council is critical,
[snip]
> I'm still available for advice about anything council-related, so 
> feel
> 
> free to ask at any point.
> 
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Donnie
> 
> Donnie Berkholz
> Developer, Gentoo Linux
> Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
> 

Donnie, 

Its your call what you do and when you do it but it would be good to 
see you on the coucil for another 7 weeks, which is when the newly 
elected coucil meets for the first time. Thats 3 more meetings.
I know too that the meetings are the tip of the iceberg in the effort 
it takes.

All the best whatever you decide.

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Regards,

Roy Bamford
(NeddySeagoon) a member of
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Re: [gentoo-council] I'm resigning

[Donnie Berkholz]

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On 16:49 Tue 26 May     , Roy Bamford wrote:
> Its your call what you do and when you do it but it would be good to 
> see you on the coucil for another 7 weeks, which is when the newly 
> elected coucil meets for the first time. Thats 3 more meetings.
> I know too that the meetings are the tip of the iceberg in the effort 
> it takes.

You probably don't realize this, but last night was the first time in a 
month I've had even an hour for Gentoo. Feel free to call it a proxy if 
you want and just have the next person in line fill in for the next 
month and a half, but I won't be able to give any input on anything so 
it might as well be official.

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Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com

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