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I was nominated to run for the openSUSE Board, and finally decided to run ;-)

I use openSUSE since years (actually it was still „SuSE Linux“ with lowercase „u“ back then), started annoying people in bugzilla, err, started betatesting in the 9.2 beta phase. Since then, I reported more than 1200 bugs. Later, OBS ruined my bugzilla statistics by introducing the option to send a SR ;-)

More recently, I helped in fighting the wiki spam, which also means I‘m admin on the english wiki since then, and had some fun[tm] with the current server admin. I‘m one of the founding members of the Heroes team (thanks to Sarah for getting the right people together at oSC16!) Currently, I work on the base server setup (using salt) for our new infrastructure and updating the wiki to an up-to-date MediaWiki version.

You can find me on several mailinglists and on IRC, and of course I still scare people in bugzilla. I‘m also a regular visitor and speaker at the openSUSE Conference, and visit other conferences as time permits.

Besides openSUSE, I work on AppArmor and PostfixAdmin – both upstream and as packager. Also, I‘m admin on several webservers (all running with Leap).

My day job has nothing to do with computers. I produce something you can drink that is named after a software we ship in openSUSE ;-)

Oh, and I collect funny quotes from various mailinglists, IRC, bugzilla etc. that then end up as random signatures under my mails, so be careful what you write ;-)

Issues I can see

• You probably know „DRY“, so – see the next paragraph

Aims/Goals

• speed! We have too many issues hanging around for too long, and that‘s annoying for people who suffer from them. Especially small things should (and can!) be solved quickly.

• clear responsibilities! Part of the speed problem is that it‘s sometimes hard to find out who can fix something, and hunting down people takes time.

• don‘t talk (too much) – do it! Sometimes we need to discuss things, but often just doing them works best. Obviously I can‘t do everything alone, so I want to encourage people to help whereever they can. „I don‘t have knownledge how to do this“ doesn‘t count – for example, updating a wiki page or reporting a bug isn‘t hard ;-) and typically people really start to report bugs once they understand that this gives them the right to complain (quoting Pascal Bleser: „Always file a bug: if it‘s not in Bugzilla, then it‘s not there“)

• longer days! Maybe I should move to Bajor – I heard they have 26 hour days there, which would solve some of my time problems ;-))

Why you should vote for me?

• I tend to kick people to ensure they work faster and fix things. This is your chance to kick me!

• Help me to find out if I can get the thing in the (non-random) signature of this blog post done!

Things I‘ll never do:

• use a stable release on my main computer – Tumbleweed is just too good ;-)

• open a bugreport if fxing it and sending a SR is faster

• be too serious – hey, our motto is „Have a lot of fun...“ ;-)

• drink beer ;-) (sorry, not even openSUSE beer)

Contact Details:

• Mail: anything @cboltz.de - or use my IRC nick @opensuse.org
• IRC: cboltz
• http://blog.cboltz.de (some more posts would be nice, but then you wouldn‘t believe the „don‘t talk – do it!“ ;-)
• https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/profile/cboltz
• https://en.opensuse.org/user:cboltz

I wish all candidates good luck, hope that we‘ll see lots of voters – and wish everybody all the best for 2017!

PS: Non-random signature (yes, I know it's unusual for a blog post to have a signature at all, so this will stay a rare exception) – and while I have serious doubts about the second paragraph, I‘m very sure about the first ;-)

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If you run for the Board this year and get elected, I can see my sanity would be doomed
But in a good way ;)
[Richard Brown]