Salut,
Le premier des trois programmes est disponible. Gergely Nagy s'était
déjà présenté il y a quelques années, pas certain qu'il y ai beaucoup de
points communs avec son précédent programme [0] pour autant.
0 : http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/platforms/algernon
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site en répondant à ce message avec pour sujet :
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renvoyez un bilan en LCFC2), un membre de l'équipe mettra à jour le
fichier sur le site et clôturera ce fil avec un DONE.
Amicalement
David
#use wml::debian::template title="Platform for Gergely Nagy" BARETITLE="true" NOHEADER="true" #include "$(ENGLISHDIR)/vote/style.inc" #use wml::debian::translation-check translation="1.2" maintainer="David Prévot" <h1 id="walking-the-plank">Walking the plank</h1> <p> Fellow hackers! </p> <p> Running for DPL is like walking the plank: standing in the centre of attention, a crowd watching your every move, the last steps before you fall into the sea full of sharks of your own doubts: <em>Will I live up to the standards set before me?</em> <em>Will I be able to perform the duties bestowed upon me?</em> <em>Will I have the courage and the strength to swim through?</em> <em>Will I be enough?</em> <em>Will anyone follow my lead, and walk the plank with me?</em></p> <p>I have travelled long and far to be able to stand on this plank today. It all started a little over a <a href="https://nm.debian.org/public/nmstatus/12808";>decade ago</a>, when the powers that be let me join Debian. I <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/lpe/news/20001120T195349Z.html";>packaged</a> a few things, <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/tama/news/20001123T195405Z.html";>adopted others</a>, I <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2002/12/msg00044.html";>played</a> an AM with <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2001/11/msg00002.html";>some</a> <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2001/11/msg00015.html";>reasonable</a> <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2001/12/msg00015.html";>success</a>, even contributed some <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2002/06/msg00025.html";>useful</a> comments, started long-running, heated... <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2001/10/threads.html#00021";><em>discussions</em></a>; I made friends and enemies alike, I had the pleasure to work with brilliant minds, but sadly, I disappointed others. And eventually, I disappeared. </p> <p> But years later, when I emerged from the slumber and sought to restore my former rank, to my surprise, I was welcomed. And even better, when I made it to DebConf, I felt at home. I knew I have arrived. This vibrant community, this strange mix of very different people working together was fascinating to see in person. </p> <p> This experience leads me to invite you now, to travel a road we have not tread on before. The Debian empire, our distribution, with the vast amount of packages we have, is already enormous. The raw manpower of hundreds of volunteer hackers is something to be proud of. We're known for our technical excellence, and bar a few mishaps, our quality. </p> <p> These goals we have achieved, what else lies ahead then? Cooperation with down- and upstream? That's already in progress, and while there's a lot remaining to be done, there's no revolution necessary on that front, nor should be any necessary. More packages, more packagers? A solved problem. More non-packaging contributors? In progress! As always, improvements can and should be made, but these are goals and wishes we have solutions for, which are on track, even if they still need care, or are taking their first baby steps. </p> <p> What then? What strange path do I want to open? <em>What crazy idea does this man standing on the plank have?</em> </p> <p> Unlikely to be a surprise, but what we lack is - and has always been - manpower. Not raw, packaging manpower - with hundreds of people, we have that covered. We lack people where we need them the most: our key projects, core teams, where everyone fears to tread. There have been many improvements on this front in recent years, quite a few teams received a healthy boost, but I believe that the state of things, and especially the way we attract new contributors can still be improved upon a lot. </p> <p> My primary aim is to make Debian, as a project, able to attract passionate talent from within the project, or from outside, or better yet: both. Not just new blood, or brilliant minds - we're doing reasonably well on both fronts, and been continuously improving. That part, I do not worry about. </p> <p> I do worry about passion. I worry, that the contributors we attract will eventually get bored, or burn out, and that's a problem. Keeping people interested, motivated, <strong>and</strong> passionate is a challenge, and this is an area I would like to improve on. To find the right people to run with the flame, so to say, to lead the way and inspire the rest. To find ways, together with the core teams and the rest of the project, to make tasks in desperate need of manpower more attractive, more rewarding. </p> <p> I do not, however, campaign to make Debian "<em>fun</em>". From where I'm standing, it has been fun for the past decade. No. I'm campaigning for a bit more... charm, if so you prefer. I long to see the day when reading bits from the various teams is actually a good, entertaining (not necessarily funny!) read, not just a dry list of bullet points. While to-the-point announcements of such nature are useful and interesting to those who are already involved in the respective teams, it's much harder to digest for those who are not. If these updates, these periodic news and bits and pieces could be also used to attract more contributors... wouldn't that be impressive? </p> <p> We're very good at software, we're unparalleled when it comes to packaging, and we improved a lot in our communications and publicity, but our attempts at recruitment are - I believe - lacking. While there were and are attempts, someone new to this free software world would still find Debian intimidating. I wish to change that, to make our routine communications accessible too. I'd love to see well-written, appealing requests for help, with just the right amount of technical and non-technical balance. This is something I've been experimenting with as part of my involvement in this year's <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/02/msg00006.html";>GSoC</a>, so far, I believe, usefully. But there's certainly a lot to improve upon, still. </p> <p> But! I recognise I've been babbling about far too long, and this introduction already stretches too far, so lets sum all of the above up in a few boring bullet points (which will also serve as a good example of why I much prefer the less formal, free flow of thought used until this point)! </p> <h1 id="mouse-in-the-sea">Mouse in the sea</h1> <h2 id="who-am-i">Who am I?</h2> <p> I am but a simple hacker, a little mouse behind the keyboard, mostly known by my nick: algernon. I was born.. a while ago, a little less than three times the time that ticked away since I first joined Debian. Offline, I have "Gergely Nagy" printed on official documents, and some people strangely prefer to call me by that name, over my nickname. </p> <p> I've done a few interesting things in my career as a programmer: I wrote a Makefile so scary that I still shiver when I look back at it. I worked as a sysadmin, wrote perl scripts, reinvented the wheel three times in a row. I hacked on video streaming software, and nowadays I'm enjoying the eventful life of a software engineer at BalaBit's support department, and spend a bit of my paid time working on syslog-ng, dreaming up crazy stuff like <a href="http://vimeo.com/25483686";>animating one's flow of logs</a>. </p> <h2 id="my-debian-work-so-far">My Debian work so far</h2> <p> I went the usual route of a Debian Developer: packaged a few pieces, adopted a few others, wrote some of my own (one of which I'm still <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/dpatch/news/20111024T000209Z.html";>trying</a> to rid the world of). I worked as an application manager for a while, enjoyed most of it, and as did many, burned out in the end. During those early days, I contributed a little here and there, too. The exact details escape me by now, but the BTS should have my name all around the place. </p> <p> Since I rejoined the project, I've been watching debian-bugs-dist@ like a hawk, looking for misfiled bugs to handle, or to chime in to discussions I found interesting. I contributed some minor code here and there, came up with <a href="https://github.com/algernon/dh-exec";>dh-exec</a> and am now part of the GSoC admin team. </p> <h2 id="my-goals">My goals</h2> <p> My goals are, I believe, well explained above, I do not wish to repeat it again, as there is no other way to put it. However, I do want to emphasise, that all the great work the DPLs in the past years have been doing, are worth doing, and I will do my best, if elected, to follow in their footsteps, and if possible, improve upon their ways, along with pursuing my own vision. </p> <p> To achieve my goal of fuelling passion, the tools and accessories are already available, the opportunities are already present, waiting to be exploited, they just all need some ignition. I'd like to oversee that, and watch the world burn in desire to spend a lifetime hacking on Debian. </p> <p> But I'm getting carried away - apologies! </p> <p> The key to my goal is communication, search for talent and passion, and the finding a way to keep these going. A hard task, and a vague one at that, too. But unfortunately, I work mostly by instinct, driven by experience. This proved to be valuable at my day job, I'm confident I can exploit the diverse experience I picked up over the years to further Debian's goals. </p> <h2 id="why-am-i-fit-to-lead">Why am I fit to lead?</h2> <p> I have nearly no previous experience in leadership. But I worked under many different leaders, both within the context of Debian, and outside of it. I worked under terrible leaders, weak ones and strong, stubborn fighters. I have seen and felt all the goods and all the wrongs they can make, and I have learned - I hope. </p> <p> The experience of having worked under very different leaders, on very different projects gives me an ample pool of knowledge, to see how leadership should work, and what mistakes to avoid. </p> <p> As I rely on the years of experience I picked up when I'm hacking, I'm confident I can similarly rely on it if elected for DPL. </p> <h2 id="additional-info">Additional info</h2> <p> I'm hoping that during the campaign period, a lot of questions will be asked, about things I forgot, or simply did not think worthy to mention. </p> <p> There's only one thing I want to remind people who read this far about: unlike <a href="$(HOME)/vote/2004/platforms/algernon">last time</a>, I'm playing to win, despite the perhaps unusual format of this platform. </p>
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