From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Scmfv-00080n-2q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:03:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8208CE06E8 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 00:03:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gold.linx.net (gold.linx.net [195.66.232.40]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59D78E075B for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 21:36:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gold.linx.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8CD4101B8 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 22:36:36 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at linx.net Received: from gold.linx.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gold.linx.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id f3rHLKUn5GbT for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 22:36:36 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.253.2] (nexus.vroon.org [82.69.120.78]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: tony@linx.net) by gold.linx.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 381BC101B2 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 22:36:35 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <1339105153.3578.31.camel@localhost> Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Council 2012/2013 election From: "Tony \"Chainsaw\" Vroon" To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:39:13 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20433.2467.605031.840097@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <4FCC4AE3.7050307@gentoo.org> <20433.2467.605031.840097@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-M1YypzDA+tbRLuWwT3qe" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.3 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Archives-Salt: a8262221-fa78-4b77-ad28-7da28c50ceb7 X-Archives-Hash: c68b6571ce295d92880bfb5f5ae29ff0 --=-M1YypzDA+tbRLuWwT3qe Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 22:05 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > chainsaw Thank you Ulrich. I accept. My manifest for this election follows: I am a firm believer in the UNIX philosophy of multiple interlocking small components. Each only performs a very specific, small task and does that job very well. This is well suited to an open source environment, where a maintainer has "scratched an itch", found his/her niche and takes pride in the smooth running of their individual gear[1] in the bigger machine. In my day job, I depend on these UNIX machines and have trained people in carefully replacing these gears as the machines run. It has become apparent that this way of life is under threat, and I would like to protect it. There is a push to pull all of the gears out of my UNIX machine and replace it with a harmonic drive[2]. I am told that it has less play and higher torque, and with only one component it is much easier to maintain if I only forget all I know about UNIX machines, throw all our custom gear sets away and retrain my staff in strain wave gearing instead. I am sorry to have to point out that we have invested significant effort in getting our gear shufflers to the level they are today, and that we depend on our lovingly hand-crafted gear ratios to get us the performance that we require. Reducing us down to exactly three gears[3] may make a harmonic drive conversion a lot easier, but our ideal speed happens to be reached on four right now! [1] program [2] systemd [3] /usr merge Regards, Tony "Chainsaw" Vroon P.S. You are most welcome to join me on IRC or e-mail me privately about my strong yet controversial opinions. However, I hope that you recognise yourself in the story above. Whether you make gears, (re)place them or simply depend on the output of a UNIX machine... --=-M1YypzDA+tbRLuWwT3qe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk/RH4IACgkQp5vW4rUFj5rE4wCfUSBhRVnXwreXFMH8hJeGu+UO kkoAoIb1ppMhRq1fQInqFtaGlPKiN81j =a8fN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-M1YypzDA+tbRLuWwT3qe--