A large part of a volunteer project's success depends on how it
interacts with each other and with external contributors. We should
make every effort to keep Gentoo a friendly and open community and
make further efforts to continue improving in this regard.


Like many volunteer-driven open-source projects, Gentoo has a shortage
of workforce rather than a surplus. Therefore, the barrier to
contributing to Gentoo must be as low as possible.

Two projects are of key importance here:
- proxy-maint
- ::guru

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that these projects are
incredibly successful in their own right and thus contribute to
Gentoo's success. Therefore, we should look into means to increase the
effectiveness of managing those two projects.


Last but not least, it is always important to remember that a
technical dispute is not a personal dispute or even a personal
animosity. We can have different opinions about technical matters. It
would be highly unusual and suspicious if this were not the case. For
this reason, it is important to have democratic means and tools to
resolve such disagreements. Again, we should keep our efforts and
constantly review our processes for effectiveness.


But enough with the phrases. Independently of whether I am part of the
council, my agenda is as follows.

1. Continue the effort to re-introduce EOG_SUM
2. Look into improving GURU's workflow. Ideally, we establish a
   merge-button-based workflow on gitlab.gentoo.org, where trusted
   GURU contributors can simply press the button. Furthermore,
   we should utilize GitLab's merge trains and similar features.
   This workflow would significantly reduce the workload for GURU's
   maintainers and, as a result, improve the throughput, which,
   in turn, encourages contributors.
3. See how the experience from (2) can be applied to proxy-maint.