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 1QV7G6-0000fO-TI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:20:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 66A061C149; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:20:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39D2A1C149 for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:20:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gentoo.org (mayo-nat4.mayo.edu [129.176.197.23]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: dberkholz) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9651A1B4029; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:20:07 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:20:05 -0500 From: Donnie Berkholz To: Mike Gilbert Cc: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Council Nominations for 2011 to 2012 Message-ID: <20110610192004.GC7271@comet.mayo.edu> References: <1307038720.2812.1@NeddySeagoon> <20110610124841.GB31395@comet> <4DF236EA.60804@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="GZVR6ND4mMseVXL/" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DF236EA.60804@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5a888143fb34335250d8acf8385cf21b --GZVR6ND4mMseVXL/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 11:23 Fri 10 Jun , Mike Gilbert wrote: > On 6/10/2011 8:48 AM, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > My kids are finally old enough that I have free time, so I'd also like= =20 > > to run for the council again. >=20 > > - getting rid of policies that were created for a single incident,=20 > > because they should only exist for patterns of repeated problems. > >=20 >=20 > Can you elaborate on this? I cannot vote in the election, but I am > curious in any case. A common problem in Gentoo is feeling like a one-time problem can't be=20 fixed without making a big policy about it, why it can't be done, what=20 will happen if it's done again, etc. If you've been around Gentoo for a=20 while and start reading through our developer docs, you'll be able to=20 connect a specific name and instance with pretty much every line that=20 says something like "Don't do stupid thing X" and "Don't do ridiculous=20 thing Y." I think part of this is rooted in a fear, for lack of a better word, to=20 take personal responsibility for an action; instead, people want a=20 rulebook to point at and say "That's wrong" so the rulebook is the bad=20 guy. But rulebooks should only be for the common cases, the patterns, the=20 problems that keep coming up over and over. One-time problems only=20 deserve one-time solutions. > Also, I would like to officially nominate dberkholz, in case nobody has > done so yet. Yay! --=20 Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com --GZVR6ND4mMseVXL/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk3ybmQACgkQXVaO67S1rtvFGACdEbh1RhldftlhrohnfZhUHIRt UBsAoP0/iTbOZjra6PrAZEyz4BDPei5q =D0ju -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GZVR6ND4mMseVXL/--