[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council nominations are now closed

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council nominations are now closed

[Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto]

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Hello.

The nominations for the Gentoo Council 2008 election were closed at
23:59:59 UTC June 18th, 2008. The voting for the new council will begin
at 00:00 UTC June 21st, 2008 and will end at 23:59:59 UTC July 4th.
There were 36 nominees to the council, of which 19 will run on this
election. All details about the nominations can be checked at
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/voting-logs/council-2008-nominees.xml
The nominees who have accepted their nominations for this election are:

- - astinus
- - Betelgeuse
- - cardoe
- - dberkholz
- - dertobi123
- - dev-zero
- - ferdy
- - Flameeyes
- - fmccor
- - Halcy0n
- - hkBst
- - jer
- - Jokey
- - leio
- - lu_zero
- - peper
- - ulm
- - welp
- - zlin


~From the election officials

- --
Regards,

Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
Gentoo- forums / Userrel / SPARC / KDE
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[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council nominations are now closed

[Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto]

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Hello fellow devs, users and Gentoo community.

The nominations for the empty seat in the 2008 Gentoo Council were
closed at 23:59:59 UTC November 28th, 2008. The voting for the empty
seat will begin in a few minutes and will end at 23:59:59 UTC December 5th.
There were 11 nominees to the empty seat in the council, of which 5 will
run on this election. All details about the nominations can be checked
at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/elections/council-200811-nominees.xml
The nominees who have accepted their nominations for this election are:

- - dev-zero
- - jer
- - leio
- - ssuominen
- - ulm

If you're an eligible voter, to cast your vote for this election you
need to login to dev.gentoo.org and run the following commands, in the
order specified.

    * votify --new council2008b - This creates a new ballot in your homedir.
    * Edit the .ballot-council2008b file and rank the candidates.
    * Once you're sure, run votify --verify council2008b to check the
validity of the ballot.
    * If that goes through fine, the next and final step is to submit
your vote using votify --submit council2008b
    * In case you're stuck, detailed help can be accessed by using
votify --help or feel free to drop by #gentoo-elections on IRC. If you
think you are eligible to vote, but cannot, please contact one of the
officials.
    * Grab a beer, have fun, sit back and enjoy the show ... till we
announce the results ;)

An important point in this election is the new *_reopen_nominations*
candidate. If this candidate ranks over all other candidates, the
election will be reopened. Any candidate that ranks below this candidate
won't be taken into account if there's a need to replace any member of
the council until the end of term.


For the election officials

Regards,

Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
Gentoo- forums / Userrel / SPARC / KDE
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[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Council nominations are now closed

[Mauricio Lima Pilla]

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What are the nominees intending to do if they are elected? I miss the
manifests.


On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto <
jmbsvicetto@gentoo.org> wrote:

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> Hello fellow devs, users and Gentoo community.
>
> The nominations for the empty seat in the 2008 Gentoo Council were
> closed at 23:59:59 UTC November 28th, 2008. The voting for the empty
> seat will begin in a few minutes and will end at 23:59:59 UTC December 5th.
> There were 11 nominees to the empty seat in the council, of which 5 will
> run on this election. All details about the nominations can be checked
> at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/elections/council-200811-nominees.xml
> The nominees who have accepted their nominations for this election are:
>
> - - dev-zero
> - - jer
> - - leio
> - - ssuominen
> - - ulm
>
> If you're an eligible voter, to cast your vote for this election you
> need to login to dev.gentoo.org and run the following commands, in the
> order specified.
>
>    * votify --new council2008b - This creates a new ballot in your homedir.
>    * Edit the .ballot-council2008b file and rank the candidates.
>    * Once you're sure, run votify --verify council2008b to check the
> validity of the ballot.
>    * If that goes through fine, the next and final step is to submit
> your vote using votify --submit council2008b
>    * In case you're stuck, detailed help can be accessed by using
> votify --help or feel free to drop by #gentoo-elections on IRC. If you
> think you are eligible to vote, but cannot, please contact one of the
> officials.
>    * Grab a beer, have fun, sit back and enjoy the show ... till we
> announce the results ;)
>
> An important point in this election is the new *_reopen_nominations*
> candidate. If this candidate ranks over all other candidates, the
> election will be reopened. Any candidate that ranks below this candidate
> won't be taken into account if there's a need to replace any member of
> the council until the end of term.
>
>
> For the election officials
>
> Regards,
>
> Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
> Gentoo- forums / Userrel / SPARC / KDE
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Mauricio Lima Pilla -- UFPEL

pilla@ufpel.edu.br, mauricio.pilla@gmail.com, pilla@gentoo.org
http://minerva.ufpel.edu.br/~pilla

"I'm just very selective about the reality I choose to accept."
                                                             -- Calvin

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[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Council nominations are now closed

[Richard Freeman]

Mauricio Lima Pilla wrote:
> What are the nominees intending to do if they are elected? I miss the 
> manifests.
> 

Agreed - I don't think that getting this done in one week should take 
precedence over getting it done "right".  I don't intend to rank anybody 
above _reopen_nominations unless they've posted one - I would recommend 
that others do the same.  :)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Council nominations are now closed

[Tobias Scherbaum]

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Mauricio Lima Pilla wrote:
> What are the nominees intending to do if they are elected? I miss the
> manifests.

dev-zero and leio posted their manifests, they're available on the
elections webpage:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/elections/council-200811-nominees.xml

  Tobias


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Council nominations are now closed

[Samuli Suominen]

On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:02:53 -0200
"Mauricio Lima Pilla" <pilla@gentoo.org> wrote:

> What are the nominees intending to do if they are elected? I miss the
> manifests.

Qualify me based on my commits as drac and ssuominen. I don't plan to
write one. It's all about commits. All. About. Commits.

And did I mention common sense yet?

Thanks, Samuli Suominen, ssuominen at gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council nominations are now closed

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Sat, 29 Nov 2008, Mauricio Lima Pilla wrote:

> What are the nominees intending to do if they are elected? I miss
> the manifests.

I think that you will be able to judge for yourself, without an
election campaign from my side. Quality and quantity of my
contributions might be a criterion.

Ulrich

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Council nominations are now closed

[Donnie Berkholz]

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On 10:02 Sat 29 Nov     , Mauricio Lima Pilla wrote:
> What are the nominees intending to do if they are elected? I miss the
> manifests.

To those of you telling us to look at what you do now, what you're 
saying is that you're good in your current role. That doesn't support 
why you would be good in a different role as a council member.

In other words, writing good code doesn't make you good at everything in 
Gentoo. It doesn't mean you would make a good docs writer, a good devrel 
member, a good trustee, or a good council member. They all involve 
different activities or different levels of thought.

All I'd like to hear is the same thing I'd want from a job candidate -- 
what makes you uniquely qualified? We have plenty of technically good 
developers running, so that doesn't exactly differentiate you.

What is your vision for what the council should do? How about what 
Gentoo should do? How would you make it happen?

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

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

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Council nominations are now closed

[Tiziano Müller]

Donnie Berkholz wrote:

> On 10:02 Sat 29 Nov     , Mauricio Lima Pilla wrote:
>> What are the nominees intending to do if they are elected? I miss the
>> manifests.
>
> To those of you telling us to look at what you do now, what you're 
> saying is that you're good in your current role. That doesn't support 
> why you would be good in a different role as a council member.
>
> In other words, writing good code doesn't make you good at everything in 
> Gentoo. It doesn't mean you would make a good docs writer, a good devrel 
> member, a good trustee, or a good council member. They all involve 
> different activities or different levels of thought.
>
> All I'd like to hear is the same thing I'd want from a job candidate -- 
> what makes you uniquely qualified? We have plenty of technically good 
> developers running, so that doesn't exactly differentiate you.
>
> What is your vision for what the council should do? How about what 
> Gentoo should do? How would you make it happen?
>

My first priority within the first two months would be to overhaul the
documents describing Gentoo's structure (GLEP 39 for example) and
to clarify and write down important procedures (like voting, etc.).
Even if this is boring work I think it is important for the future
since it will help to avoid unnessecary discussions which cost a lot of
energy and time, which is better used to develop new things.

After that I'd like to do something about our communication problems
(yes, we have one): We definetely have to do something about our website
and we have to give users more information on what we're doing, why
we're doing it and where they can get involved. Donnie made a good
start once by posting more news to the front page but he can't be the
only one. (Convincing project leads to write a summary from time to
time for example.) Also, the gentoo-dev mailinglist did see more
activity in the past. Maybe all developers currently not reading the
list could rejoin so we can actually discuss new ideas again
with (almost) every developer involved.

From the technical side I'd like to change metadata.xml even further
(see my proposals), push projects trying to automate version bump
detection, bug-assigning, etc. (most of the boring tasks) and tree
signing to help developers focus on the interesting stuff.

That's it (more or less), you can also read my manifest
(http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/voting-logs/nominees/2008/dev-zero.txt) or my blog entry (currently only on planet.gentoo.org).
... and don't forget to vote for me if you like the mentioned ideas :-)

Cheers,
Tiziano