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 99E601381F3 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 22:05:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 08DCEE09EC; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 22:05:16 +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 66C3CE09CB for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 22:05:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from phjr-macbookpro.local (adsl-75-37-14-10.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net [75.37.14.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: phajdan.jr) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7DADA33E0CB for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 22:05:14 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <51C61F94.6040003@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 15:05:08 -0700 From: =?UTF-8?B?IlBhd2XFgiBIYWpkYW4sIEpyLiI=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 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 To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Council nominations References: <20130615201707.28b61d2a@caribou.gateway.2wire.net> <1371505501.30545.4.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1371505501.30545.4.camel@localhost> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="----enig2CGHOBQBHTIAIBCVXJGBA" X-Archives-Salt: 0f6813dd-f86c-497e-8184-4447ca3618d2 X-Archives-Hash: 9570018f881927ad8a30a6bc411ca9e9 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) ------enig2CGHOBQBHTIAIBCVXJGBA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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.= =2E > but maybe I lost some mail :/ ) Thank you, Pacho. I accept the nomination. You can find my manifesto from 2012 at 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. Pawe=C5=82 ------enig2CGHOBQBHTIAIBCVXJGBA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAlHGH5gACgkQuUQtlDBCeQI39wCffFNNhEGMXqvBmb0ye/O3s3GE m7cAn0FL7B4XFLaxvNH48V/zK1vxw732 =Ff+M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------enig2CGHOBQBHTIAIBCVXJGBA--