[gentoo-project] repoman dilfridge manifesto

[gentoo-project] repoman dilfridge manifesto

[Andreas K. Huettel]

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Howdy, 

since I realized that I'm one of the few who haven't posted a manifesto for 
the council election yet, here's it. 

First of all, for those who don't know me yet. I'm a Linux user since 
approximately 1998 and around as a Gentoo developer since 2010. I started off 
in the KDE team and still contribute there, though not so much anymore, mainly 
because it is in very good hands. In the meantime, I've stepped in in various 
places where help was needed. I'm in the office, printing and perl team. Among 
other things I'm generating the libreoffice-bin packages, I maintain CUPS and 
Digikam. These days I'm helping zlogene bring the Perl virtuals uptodate. Last 
year I was elected to the council. 

Gentoo is about choice. This is the main point that we should always remember. 
We provide an incredible amount of flexibility to our users (both direct and 
via our downstreams), and this flexibility is something we have to value and 
preserve.

This means that an important task is to balance.

Between friends of exotic but slow arches and amd64 power users. 
Between full desktop environments and server installs. (1)
Between providing cutting edge brand new software and rock-solid stable 
systems.
Between maintainers who want absolutely noone to touch their package and tree-
wide necessary changes.
Between people who barge in and want to immediately reform everything, and 
people who prefer that our ebuilds still work with 10 year old portage.

All this is best solved when people talk to each other directly and figure out 
the solutions themselves. Unfortunately this does not always work. I see the 
council as the institution that provides direction and helps solve all the 
conflicts of interest that can arise. (Yes, fancy word!)

I think the last year has been pretty productive, and I'd like to thank all my 
council colleagues; while obviously there are differences of opinion, it was a 
pleasure to work together. 

Cheers, 
Andreas

(1) Trying very hard not to mention the s*****d word here.

-- 
Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer (council, kde)
dilfridge@gentoo.org
http://www.akhuettel.de/

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