Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2007/08
Blackace wrote: > I'd like to nominate: > > vapier > tsunam > nightmorph > seemant > avenj > christel > > Although most of them will probably decline, I think they would do an > excellent job straightening out Gentoo's heading and have the barnacles > to perform the requisite keelhauling. I appreciate the nomination by you and others, but after a whole month of thinking on this, I must decline, mostly for reasons of time commitment. Council actually isn't a job I'd want to do; I'm not out to "be in charge." I'm sure I'd take the same approach that I would to everything else I do; do the job that's before me, but I don't think I'd be able to devote enough time to do a *good* job. I've no problem doing any necessary keelhauling etc., but I'm not sure that I have the time. And no matter how fast I'd try to learn, I'm not starting off with the same detailed knowledge of ebuilds and Portage that the other candidates have. Meanwhile, I'll continue making a difference within Gentoo by doing documentation for any and all interested parties, and anything else I can contribute to, like the GWN. It's not council work, but I'll continue to try to make Gentoo better for everyone, at least in my little corner. :) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] 2.6.22 stable plans
William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: Not sure if bumping the ati-drivers package will address that. But I could see that potentially being a problem for 2.6.22 stabilization. ati-drivers is a couple of releases behind in the tree - the latest versions have been fixed to work with kernel 2.6.22. Check out http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183480 j. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] 2.6.22 stable plans
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 19:35 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote: > On Thursday I plan to request that the x86 and amd64 arch teams mark the > latest gentoo-sources-2.6.22 revision stable. We have no reported > regressions for this kernel release. I haven't been able to get ati-drivers to compile against a 2.6.22 kernel. Seems to be for similar reasons as http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181982 error: linux/ioctl32.h: No such file or directory Not sure if bumping the ati-drivers package will address that. But I could see that potentially being a problem for 2.6.22 stabilization. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Gentoo/Java signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[gentoo-dev] 2.6.22 stable plans
On Thursday I plan to request that the x86 and amd64 arch teams mark the latest gentoo-sources-2.6.22 revision stable. We have no reported regressions for this kernel release. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] trustee nomination
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 22:27 +, Ferris McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I understand there are problems getting enough people to run just to > fill the required slots. If that's the case, in order to get enough > candidates, I'll nominate myself (and accept). Please send this to gentoo-nfp (and not to me) so it'll get counted. Thanks, -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations Update
> Those who have accepted though havent sent information regarding why we > should vote for them: Since it's almost time to vote, here's a collection of my thoughts about the council: http://dev.gentoo.org/~amne/stuff/councilnomination.txt If something is unclear or you have further questions, feel free to ask. cheers, Wernfried -- Wernfried Haas (amne) - amne (at) gentoo.org Gentoo Forums - http://forums.gentoo.org forum-mods (at) gentoo.org #gentoo-forums (freenode) pgpcfwmvBfmfl.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] trustee nomination
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I understand there are problems getting enough people to run just to fill the required slots. If that's the case, in order to get enough candidates, I'll nominate myself (and accept). Hope this helps, Regards, Ferris - -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6-ecc01.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGr7dXQa6M3+I///cRAmMJAJ0Vt5XiAMEaJ0Ed9WpqFkdYccTIggCeIOpP Memd/8PUIdIbpiKArdszHP8= =MHIF -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations Update
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:38:16 -0700 Christina Fullam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) What you will do > 2) Why you will do it > 3) How you will do it > 4) What is the timescale for doing it > 5) What experience do you have with this or a similar role > 6) Why do you think you are qualified > 7) How you plan to balance a council role with your current Gentoo > role 8) How much time can you dedicate to the council role After much thought and many encouraging words from other developers, I've decided to accept the nomination for the council. I wrote about some of my goals recently on my blog [1]. My primary focus is to make Gentoo a better tool. They are all reasonable goals that should be doable over the course of the next year. Also, I want to join the council to ensure that Gentoo's long-term values are upheld. Since I joined Gentoo four years ago, I've become one of our senior developers. That's given me a strong understanding of our core philosophies. It's crucial for our council to maintain our philosophies through its actions, so the council should be composed of people who understand what Gentoo really means. I've held a number of leadership roles within Gentoo, including X team lead, clustering project lead and desktop manager. I spent quite a while on devrel as a recruiter, which helped me learn about mentoring new developers and dealing with difficult old ones. I try to be a voice of reason on the mailing lists, and I care deeply about building the strength of our community, both of which I've worked on over my time as a developer. Many of our current council members who chose to decline their nominations mentioned that dealing with difficult people was what determined their choice. One of my strengths is remaining calm under pressure, so I can deal with this. A year ago, I declined nominations for both the council and the board of trustees. This year gave me time to consider what I really care about in Gentoo. The conclusion I came to is that what I care about most is our community and making Gentoo a better tool, both of which I can better accomplish by joining the council. Although I do have a number of projects [2] in the works, they've been on the back burner for a while and I'm content to let them stay there while I work on my true priorities in Gentoo. The X work has gotten a lot easier since we got to a smooth, fully modular setup. I'd like to get another recruit to help with bugs now that Josh retired, but it's not so time-consuming that I don't have time for the council. Thanks, Donnie 1. http://spyderous.livejournal.com/91151.html 2. http://dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/proj/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Zombie: Sven Vermeulen (swift)
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:22:56 +0300 Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your doc zombie Sven Vermeulen has risen from his grave and is back to > beat www.gentoo.org/doc/en with his fingers. Give him the usual welcome > with nice head shots. Welcome back, Sven. And no, you can't have my brain. I said no! No! Don't get any closer to me! Aaargh, nooo!! -- Andrej "Ticho" Kacian Gentoo Linux Developer - net-mail, antivirus, sound, x86 signature.asc Description: PGP signature