Re: [gentoo-project] Council nominations

["\"Paweł Hajdan, Jr.\"" <phajdan.jr@gentoo.org>]

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On 6/17/13 2:45 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> In addition to some of the already nominated people, I would like to
> also add Phajdan.Jr and tomwij (I think they hasn't been nominated yet..
> but maybe I lost some mail :/ )

Thank you, Pacho. I accept the nomination.

You can find my manifesto from 2012 at
<http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/msg_a6c0547449a675e6b2579ce4d7cba2dc.xml>
and I think it still expresses my opinions well.

With more and more understanding of how FOSS development differs from
software development for a living, my approach to role of the council
could be also described as laissez-faire.

Most of the work is done by developers making commits, not by people
bikeshedding on -dev or even the council. Even though many additions to
recent EAPIs or portage are not perfect (say slot operator deps or
preserve-libs), making them available for wider use is a big improvement
that also enables further revisions and experimentation based on
experiences of how they perform in practice that we wouldn't have
otherwise. Even though some of the caveats of these solutions have been
predicted by some people (which I find valuable), usually the real
consequences and effects are more convincing to most people.

I am pro-innovation big time, and I wouldn't wait for things to be
perfect before making them available. However, I'm striving for high
quality bar in Gentoo, from testing reverse dependencies before
stabilizations and automating the process, to well-maintained (also
thanks to the team) Chromium and related packages in the tree.

I try to stay away from the flames du jour of gentoo-dev. FYI I'm not
using systemd on my system, mostly because sysv init works well enough
for me now. I can totally see myself installing systemd in the future if
it happens to work for me better for any reason. I think there is a
place both for people who want to use it and who don't want, and I think
both of these opinions can be reasonable, including strong opinions.
Note that to make that work in practice, some compromises may be needed,
e.g. using INSTALL_MASK to avoid installing unwanted files.

Paweł


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