I am not a Jedi.

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 grown: very large very fast. It’s been doing this for about 3 years now, with no real signs of letting up.

Now, slarti 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 who had been my parter-in-crime in being devrel before it officially existed. The QA 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 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!

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 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).

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.

Also, I’m the head (once again) of bug-wranglers, heading a team of two! Jakub 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).

May the force..