Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Council nominations

["Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" <zerochaos@gentoo.org>]

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On 06/16/2013 12:29 PM, Michael Palimaka wrote:
> In addition to those already nominated:

> zero_chaos

I am honored by the nomination.  Gentoo has meant a lot to me over the
past decade or so, and so it is with great pride that I accept this
nomination.

Although I've only been a gentoo developer for a short time (just barely
long enough to accept this nomination as a matter of fact) I feel I can
bring some fresh blood to the council chambers.

In my short time with gentoo I have brought several things to the
council, as well as attended as many meetings as reasonably possible
(~half) around my currently wild work schedule.  In that time I've
noticed some things which really disturb me and I'd like to fix.

If elected, I hereby promise (not a politician so this should mean
something) that I will do everything possible to get the council to
actually explain their decisions.  I feel very strongly that the biggest
problem with the previous council was a perceived (real or imaginary)
lack of action.  Some of the council members seemed to immediately vote
"let's do nothing" or "this isn't a council problem" on every single
issue.  While I have to agree that sometimes this is the correct course
of action, it was often the choice of the council to do nothing AND
explain nothing, the latter part being unacceptable in my eyes.  As a
user of gentoo, a developer of gentoo, and the maintainer of a large
overlay and livecd (pentoo), I feel that the worst thing the council can
do is say "not our problem" and leave it at that.  Explanations must be
given, as well as definite steps forward or explanations of why there
will be none.

Most of you reading this also read -dev, and I'm sure many of you live
on irc (as I do when not traveling for work) and know that I can be very
opinionated.  It is certainly true that if I believe I am right I will
challenge anyone to prove me wrong, I am also willing to accept when I
am wrong.  I realize I appear hot headed at times, but decisions are
made based on calm collected reasoning as well as the guidance of the
many developers who are more experienced than I am.  Nothing I have ever
done was done in a vacuum, I have been completely transparent about my
goals, my work, and my ideals since I started working on pentoo 7 years ago.

tl;dr
As such, here is my main goal for the council, elected or otherwise:

Transparent reasoning for decisions made, especially when the decision
is to do nothing.

No one likes to feel like they aren't being heard.  Nothing is worse
than given a technical argument and simply being told "no" or "this
isn't our problem".

No one pays me to work on gentoo, I'm not a software developer (etc) by
trade, I'm here on my own because I love gentoo and I want to see it
improve, and I believe everyone who reads the mailing lists will agree
there is a lot of room for that improvement at this time.

Thanks,
Zero_Chaos
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