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Council Manifesto of Michał Górny, 2023
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We are at a crossroads where the future fate of open source is being
determined.  Gentoo has always had a unique position of remaining in its
own niche, and therefore being able to pursue its own goals, remaining
relatively independent of corporate pushes and passing fashions.  Now
it is more important than ever to focus on our strengths and remain
the distribution our users need.

The most important issues that this year's Council is going to face are:

1. Establishing the relationship with an umbrella organization
   and working on a seamless transition from the unsustainable Gentoo
   Foundation model.

2. Managing the right balance between providing the "bleeding edge"
   experience that many of our users want and the stability that many
   of our users need, as well as balance between the access to new
   technologies and support for older platforms.

3. Ensuring that Gentoo remains open and welcoming community that is
   lead by public discourse and driven by a reasonable consensus
   between what we believe is the best solution and what our
   contributors volunteer to do.


I became a developer in late 2010, and I have started actively
contributing the year before that.  While I may have been getting
grumpy, I still am actively working on Gentoo and I think I manage
a good balance between experience and having new ideas.

These days, I primarily enjoy working as part of the awesome Python team
in Gentoo.  This involves both the high-level job of maintaining
the eclasses and documentation, and low-level bumping of hunreds
of packages.

Besides this, I maintain LLVM and XFCE.  I create and contribute to
tools related to package management and QA.