======================================= Council Manifesto of Michał Górny, 2021 ======================================= In my opinion, the Council members are supposed to primarily be the representatives of the wider community and not just a few people entitled to make arbitrary decisions. This is why I believe that: 1. All topics need to be discussed publicly (except for special cases where this is impossible). 2. The Council members should actively participate in the public discussion and express their opinions there. 3. The Council members should come prepared to the meetings, and put an effort to publish meeting summaries on time. 4. The Council members should have time for other developers. Gentoo is made by developers, contributors and users, all working in the best interest of the distribution. The Council must serve them and help them, not rule over them. I am an active Gentoo developer since late 2010, and an active contributor since mid-2009 (my first Sunrise commit). Over this time, I have done a lot of varying things, both technical and organizational. I'm currently the lead of LLVM, proxy-maint, Python, Retirement and XFCE projects, and the deputy lead of the QA project. I have started the Dist-Kernel and GURU projects. At the same time, I do not refuse doing grunt work. I am effectively maintaining hundreds of Python packages, regularly fighting test failures, porting issues and improving the ebuild quality. I am author of a dozen Gentoo sysadmin/PM-related tools. I have implemented most of EAPI 7 and EAPI 8 in both Portage and PkgCore. So after 10 years I'm still alive and kicking. I manage to find time for Gentoo, I actively participate in discussions and I know what's going on in Gentoo. I believe this makes me a good candidate for the Council. Oh, and I have three cats for two years now.