Hi everyone,
Since there seems to be an overall low motivation to have candidates, I
wish to propose myself as one of the 3 packaging team leaders.
The aim for my application is that I want to improve and develop the
mentoring process. I am ready to take responsibilities with respect to
that. Note that I want to work and help on the mentoring process
irrespectively of the team leaders choice.
The reasoning behind my application is that it might be better to have
some team leaders that have an aim (and take some responsibilities),
than some who are just designated by default.
Anyway, as we all know, free software projects work by do-ocraty, where
the people who decide are the people who do something, quite
independently of the election of any team leader :-).
Some words about who I am: I'm a French man living in London, UK, where
I work as a University lecturer in Computer Science. It means that I am
quite time-constrained from October to March, and more free of my
schedule from April to September. I am not an old-time Mandriva packager
(Although I am a long time user): I joined Mageia in its early phases
and went through the mentoring process. I now maintain a lot of the
OCaml stack as well as random packages (overall 150ish packages).
I also was the one annoying everyone with the RPM group changes.
If I may help my fellow packagers with some pluses and minuses of my
application:
+ recent member, fresh eye on Mageia without much Mandriva heritage
- less experienced packager,
+ focus on mentoring
- would work on mentoring even if not elected
+ lives in UK (a bit of diversity)
- French (weak diversity, we don't want too many French team leaders)
Cheers,
--
Malo
