From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CB791381F3 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 22:39:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B55CE09A9; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 22:39:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EFDA3E0966 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 22:39:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.210] (S010600222de111ff.vc.shawcable.net [96.49.5.156]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: dolsen) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D9BF533E3EE for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 22:39:44 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1372113579.3447.105.camel@big_daddy.dol-sen.ca> Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Council nominations From: Brian Dolbec To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 15:39:39 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20130618034644.GA16520@thor> References: <20130615201707.28b61d2a@caribou.gateway.2wire.net> <51BDB24D.7070509@gentoo.org> <20130618034644.GA16520@thor> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.4 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b73756f9-ec83-40bc-be00-f7119569bb72 X-Archives-Hash: 0edd4d96a9069ae0a5c070cb6a09c7df Please pardon any threading irregularities. I wasn't on the -project list when the nomination email went out. > On 2013-06-16 05:40, hasufell wrote: I nominate in addition to the already mentioned ones: Brian Dolbec (dolsen) Thank You, after pondering it over this past week, I accept. And strangely enough, with my wife's blessing :D hmm, as for a manifesto... Well, I'm not a young whipper snapper fresh out of/or still in university. I am old enough to be a father to most gentoo devs. So, by that nature, I hope to bring some age related wisdom to the decision making. Overall, I consider myself to be generalist. I specialize in few things, but hold a decent understanding of a great many things. It is my ability to catch on quickly to concepts and apply or relate to them elsewhere that I can bring to the council to help in decision making. I've done some coding professionally, and much more here for gentoo. I am a refrigeration/heating technician by trade, so the time I spend in computer rooms, data centers is tending to their cooling needs. I have a wife and 2 daughters (28 & 14 yrs. old), dogs, cats, fish,... I joined gentoo as a user back in 2002 and have not gone to any other distro since. I've been working on porthole's coding since it's near beginnings (sadly, it's been neglected this past few years), I have been helping/mentoring with gentoo's GSOC involvement and students since 2010. I became a staffer in 2011, and full developer in 2012. For those of you that don't know, I've been involved in many of the tools you use to maintain your gentoo system. I am the maintainer of some as well as their upstream and/or contributor. app-portage/porthole, upstream & maintainer app-portage/gpytage, contributor, maintainer app-portage/gentoolkit (python based tools only) equery api rewrites, enalyze, new python based revdep-rebuild {api advice}, eclean re-write. app-portage/layman, 2.0 rewrite, current upstream/maintainer sys-apps/portage, various code chunks refactoring, api improvements, public api, emaint rewrite app-portage/mirrorselect recent re-write & update app-portage/esearch the 1.0 rewrite dev-python/pyGPG, A new python interface to running gnupg, under development. gentoo-keys New project under development for managing gentoo gpg release and developer keys, for both users and infra machines. It will also be used in verifying git commits for the upcoming git migration. Users will use it for verifying gentoo release media, layman's soon to be gpg signed repositories.xml list, etc.. dev-util/catalyst Current rewrite being done, to eliminate hard coded paths, restructure the code base, bring the code up to date, etc.. sys-apps/pkgcore, Testing, api involvement for porthole's pkgcore backend. ... -- Brian Dolbec