{"id":722,"date":"2018-05-25T17:43:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T15:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mgorny\/?p=722"},"modified":"2018-08-13T18:00:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T16:00:44","slug":"the-story-of-gentoo-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mgorny\/2018\/05\/25\/the-story-of-gentoo-management\/","title":{"rendered":"The\u00a0story of\u00a0Gentoo management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently made a\u00a0<a rel='external' href='https:\/\/dev.gentoo.org\/~mgorny\/articles\/gentoo-management.html'>tabular summary of (probably) all Council members and\u00a0Trustees in\u00a0the\u00a0history of\u00a0Gentoo<\/a>.  I think that this table provides a\u00a0very succinct way of\u00a0expressing the\u00a0changes within management of\u00a0Gentoo.  While it can&#8217;t express the\u00a0complete history of\u00a0Gentoo, it can serve as\u00a0a\u00a0useful tool of\u00a0reference.<\/p>\n<p>What questions can it answer?  For example, it provides an\u00a0easy way to see how many terms individuals have served, or\u00a0how long Trustee terms were.  You can clearly see who served both on\u00a0the\u00a0Council and\u00a0on\u00a0the\u00a0Board and\u00a0when those two bodies had common members.  Most notably, it collects a\u00a0fair amount of\u00a0hard-to-find data in\u00a0a\u00a0single table.<\/p>\n<p>Can you trust it?  I&#8217;ve put an\u00a0effort to make the\u00a0developer lists correct but given the\u00a0bad quality of data (see below), I can&#8217;t guarantee complete correctness.  The Trustee term dates are approximate at\u00a0best, and\u00a0oriented around elections rather than actual term (which is hard to\u00a0find).  Finally, I&#8217;ve merged a\u00a0few short-time changes such as\u00a0empty seats between resignation and\u00a0appointing a\u00a0replacement, as\u00a0expressing them one by\u00a0one made little sense and\u00a0would cause the\u00a0tables to grow even longer.<\/p>\n<p>This article aims to be the\u00a0text counterpart to\u00a0the\u00a0table.  I would like to tell the\u00a0history of\u00a0the\u00a0presented management bodies, explain the\u00a0sources that I&#8217;ve used to get the\u00a0data and\u00a0the\u00a0problems that I&#8217;ve found while working on\u00a0it.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0you could suspect, the\u00a0further back I had to\u00a0go, the\u00a0less good data I\u00a0was able to find.  The\u00a0problems included\u00a0the\u00a0limited scope of\u00a0our archives and some apparent secrecy of\u00a0decision-making processes at\u00a0the\u00a0early time (judging by\u00a0some cross-posts, the\u00a0traffic on\u00a0-core mailing list was significant, and\u00a0it was not archived before late 2004).  Both due to\u00a0lack of\u00a0data, and\u00a0due to specific interest in\u00a0developer self-government, this article starts in\u00a0mid-2003.<\/p>\n<p><a rel='external' href='https:\/\/dev.gentoo.org\/~mgorny\/articles\/the-story-of-gentoo-management.html'>Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently made a\u00a0tabular summary of (probably) all Council members and\u00a0Trustees in\u00a0the\u00a0history of\u00a0Gentoo. I think that this table provides a\u00a0very succinct way of\u00a0expressing the\u00a0changes within management of\u00a0Gentoo. While it can&#8217;t express the\u00a0complete history of\u00a0Gentoo, it can serve as\u00a0a\u00a0useful tool of\u00a0reference. What questions can it answer? For example, it provides an\u00a0easy way to see how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mgorny\/2018\/05\/25\/the-story-of-gentoo-management\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The\u00a0story of\u00a0Gentoo management&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mgorny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mgorny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mgorny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mgorny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mgorny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mgorny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mgorny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mgorny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mgorny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mgorny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}