{"id":36,"date":"2005-07-11T14:59:45","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T14:59:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-07-11T14:59:45","modified_gmt":"2005-07-11T14:59:45","slug":"i_am_not_a_jedi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/2005\/07\/11\/i_am_not_a_jedi\/","title":{"rendered":"I am not a Jedi."},"content":{"rendered":"

But I could be with your vote!! All kidding aside, Gentoo’s organisational structure is undergoing a change<\/a>. This is the culmination of a lot of proposals from a lot of different people. The old TLP management structure<\/a> simply did not scale well enough to retain its effectivity. It’s no secret that the Gentoo project has grown: very large very fast. It’s been doing this for about 3 years now, with no real signs of letting up.<\/p>\n

Now, slarti<\/a> did nominate me to be on the council. I’d like to thank him for thinking of me. I was a part of the initial metastructure: I believe I headed up devrel and qa and something else at the time. Devrel was quickly handed off to avenj<\/a> who had been my parter-in-crime in being devrel before it officially existed. The QA<\/a> project never really took off, despite my best efforts. Let me put that into perspective. I was heading up base, x11, and devrel which took most of my time. I took on QA with the express purpose of getting someone else to take it over. I tried a bunch of people (some of whom already actually _do_ qa), but nobody wanted it. Finally, out of the blue, Sven<\/a> approached me and qa exists and is in process. The page I’ve linked to is just a placeholder, so don’t take it too seriously. In the next week watch for massive updates!<\/p>\n

As for devrel, we did some things right and some things wrong. The wrongs are being fixed currently and I believe that the new and improved devrel<\/a> under Deedra’s leadership will be a stronger and better one. It’ll probably never be a popular one though (at least not for the right reasons).<\/p>\n

I’ll take QA as my failure to build a team. However, that’s been my strong point and the recurring theme throughout my time as a Gentoo developer. It’s what I do, it’s my M.O.: find what’s broken, find someone who can fix, put the two together, back away slowly. <\/p>\n

Also, I’m the head (once again) of bug-wranglers, heading a team of two! Jakub<\/a> of course is the primary bug-wrangler currently. So anyway, without getting too long winded — I’m not *highly* technical in the coding sense, but I have some pretty good ideas (cascading profiles, runlevels etc) and I can put together teams to make them come to pass (even if it’s two years after the fact).<\/p>\n

May the force..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But I could be with your vote!! All kidding aside, Gentoo’s organisational structure is undergoing a change. This is the culmination of a lot of proposals from a lot of different people. The old TLP management structure simply did not scale well enough to retain its effectivity. It’s no secret that the Gentoo project has … Continue reading I am not a Jedi.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}