2006 Gentoo Developer of the year award

[bunder]

there's lots of people without @gentoo.org addresses doing development work all the time.

Value the people doing good work, not the people with some random email address.

i'll name a few:

Javeed (syscrash)
Dave (nightm4re)
Hatam
Jeff (_dook_master_)
Justin (Fitzsimmons)
Andrew (andrewy)

* banana
* cookies - mpd client
* libnoise
* minipager - minimalistic pager, replaced or replaces tangent
* nitrogen - wallpaper chooser
* platypus - gmail access via python
* py-ownage - some sort of enemy-territory parser
* slash - contact manager
* tangent - minimalistic pager
* bob
* enigma - ruby website quote thingy
* visibility - another pager
* crosstalk - many-client/one-server model VOIP
* rrobots_wrapper - a wrapper that allows rrobots to use other coding languages
* mtg - magic the gathering card database
* sniper - monitors file/folder modifications and can take actions based on the forementioned
* hoax - google talk client
* wiinewsletter - wii message board app
* multiply - backup app of sorts
* catshot - screenshot script, shows all virtual desktops in one picture

Jeremy (deado)
* bunhax - CPUsets script written in ruby
* et0 - CLI enemy-territory server watch app

i unfortunately can't name what all these apps do, but i know for a fact that these guys have helped out with other patches for programs... namely openbox.

edit: i also believe the one known as gamma has put forth some contributions to gentoo as well.

[Phenax]

Paul Bredbury - He's not an official developer.. but he burns rubber on the bugzilla. He churns out ebuilds like there's no tomorrow.

I must mention him.

[eroyf]

Wow, This is not at all topic, but I really like to see people talking about all the developers out there with no @gentoo.org mail address.

Thanks to all of you guys!

[welp]

I don't think that any developer or contributor can be nominated "Best developer of the year". Some developers might do little work, but the work that they do is exceedingly difficult; some developers might make thousands of commits a day, but they're just doing the easy stuff that anyone can do - It all evens out in the end, so long as everyone who contributes to Gentoo (as a developer or not...) the distribution will move forward, if <developer> left, there is almost certainly someone who would be able to step in his shoes immediately. So long as there is community effort, as well as effort by the people who have commit access to the tree, I believe this distro can do nothing but move forward.

I nominate everyone who has contributed to the distro over the past as "Best developer of the year". It's all about how much effort it takes for one person to do one thing, not how much that one person does. Some developers might find it very hard, if not impossible, to do some of the tasks that some developers do; however, what they DO do is probably very important to the distribution in its own way.

[bunkacid]

I nominate everyone who has contributed to the distro over the past as "Best developer of the year". It's all about how much effort it takes for one person to do one thing, not how much that one person does. Some developers might find it very hard, if not impossible, to do some of the tasks that some developers do; however, what they DO do is probably very important to the distribution in its own way.

Your reasoning is OK, but pretty much you took the Time Magazine, "way out".

If you've contributed at all to Gentoo in 2006, then YOU are developer of the year.

Happy new year.

[cokey]

the votes are in, have fun voting: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-529966.html

[Kloeri]

the votes are in, have fun voting: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-529966.html

As many others have stated, only the nominations that you approve of have been added to that vote. It's extremely biased and I'm ashamed that you're using the Gentoo name to further your own agendas in that way.

[cokey]

the votes are in, have fun voting: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-529966.html

As many others have stated, only the nominations that you approve of have been added to that vote. It's extremely biased and I'm ashamed that you're using the Gentoo name to further your own agendas in that way.

oh yeah, you see my name in all of the poll options

[Kloeri]

the votes are in, have fun voting: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-529966.html

As many others have stated, only the nominations that you approve of have been added to that vote. It's extremely biased and I'm ashamed that you're using the Gentoo name to further your own agendas in that way.

oh yeah, you see my name in all of the poll options

No, I see you selecting exactly the people you like and refusing anybody else to be nominated. But then, you probably don't see anything wrong with that..

[aidanjt]

I'm probably going to get embroled in a dev flamefest, but I have an opinion about about cries to nominate ciaranm. With whether he's a valid nominee aside, a developer isn't much use when he doesn't listen to his peers and users, nor admits when he's wrong. To me, that doesn't make for good developer material regardless of how much code he/she works on or what project they lead.

[MetalGod]

I don't think that any developer or contributor can be nominated "Best developer of the year". Some developers might do little work, but the work that they do is exceedingly difficult; some developers might make thousands of commits a day, but they're just doing the easy stuff that anyone can do - It all evens out in the end, so long as everyone who contributes to Gentoo (as a developer or not...) the distribution will move forward, if <developer> left, there is almost certainly someone who would be able to step in his shoes immediately. So long as there is community effort, as well as effort by the people who have commit access to the tree, I believe this distro can do nothing but move forward.

I nominate everyone who has contributed to the distro over the past as "Best developer of the year". It's all about how much effort it takes for one person to do one thing, not how much that one person does. Some developers might find it very hard, if not impossible, to do some of the tasks that some developers do; however, what they DO do is probably very important to the distribution in its own way.

Yeah i couldn't say better

[steveL]

Maybe cokehabit would let Ciaranm in if we were to nominate cokehabit as user-rep of the year. :twisted:

I like both of them as they add humor to an otherwise boring life.

TBH I see cokehabit as as divisive as ciaranm, and he's an awful lot ruder ;P but there's nothing wrong with having character. And he doesn't half crack me up sometimes.

In terms of devs who I rate, based solely on what I have read (so obviously there's a whole load of stuff I don't know about):
antarus, flameeyes, jakubmoc, spanky, vapier, ferringb, zmedico, ostergaard, ciaranm, eroyf (bugday), solar (who seems well reclusive ;), wolf132 (or whatever Gianelloni's nick is.)

I'd have to pick antarus as he's helped me loads, and he seeems to be working on a lot of good (and necessary) stuff without getting all ego about it. In fact I don't think I've seen ego-head behaviour from any devs which impresses me greatly.

Is the poll now closed? as there's only 6 devs on the list, and I thought it was a top 10. (Sorry for not reading all the posts in this thread.)

[eroyf]

I like both of them as they add humor to an otherwise boring life.

TBH I see cokehabit as as divisive as ciaranm, and he's an awful lot ruder ;P[/quote]

I tend to agree. Sadly Ciaran is not able to be on the forums since he is banned.

[Conan]

Sadly isn't the best word to use. He did it to himself.

[cokey]

Maybe cokehabit would let Ciaranm in if we were to nominate cokehabit as user-rep of the year.

I like both of them as they add humor to an otherwise boring life.

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if i hadn't have voted for flameeyes i probably would have voted for zmendico or wolf31o2. I nominated wolf31o2 for the Gentoo Council and he got in