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As a principal software engineer that works on Fuchsia, I can assure you that the project does not exist solely to retain me. :)

• jacobush 6y ago
  ... but also your colleagues?
• suchire 6y ago
  Not solely, but in part? ;-)
• swetland 6y ago
  Congrats on the promo! It didn't retain me (though I didn't get promoted to Principal, so maybe I don't count) but I did enjoy working on Fuchsia. Nice to see much of the syscall design seems to have survived.
  • abarth 6y ago
    Thanks! Yes, your ideas are alive and well in the project.
• wmf 6y ago
  Since you're here, "abarth", it took me several clicks to get to the OWNERS file and all I saw was a list of email addresses. Calling that "governance" is... could we at least get some names and maybe brief bios on these people?
  • abarth 6y ago
    I understand where you're coming from, but that ends up being an inclusion issue in the project. I'm comfortable having my name and bio "out there" on the Internet, but I recognize that's a privilege. Not everyone who contributes to the project will be comfortable doing that.
    • gowld 6y ago
      The Eng Council is 5 people in a position of governance, not everyone who contributes.
      • abarth 6y ago
        Ah, I didn't realize the comment above was about the Eng Council. I'll raise the issue at our next meeting. Thanks!
  • evil-olive 6y ago
    The OWNERS file is typically used, sometimes by automated tooling, to answer the "who should I ask to code review these changes?" question. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/code_reviews.md https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/c... https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/creating-cloning-and-archiving-repositories/about-code-owners https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/creat... https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/code_owners.html https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/code_owners.html It's not meant to be a place for developer bios. If for no other reason than one developer could appear in many OWNERS files scattered throughout a repo, or in multiple repos, and keeping the bio current across all of them would be a nightmare.
    • wmf 6y ago
      Let me add some context. I was looking at the governance links on the site and found https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/contribute/governance/eng_council https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/contribute/governance/eng_co... which at the bottom simply says "The current members of the Fuchsia Eng Council are listed in this OWNERS file." I think it would improve the transparency/accountability of the project to have more than a list of email addresses here.
      • asadlionpk 6y ago
        Probably not in the OWNERS file though, as it’s a machine-consumable file, heavy used inside and outside google for automation.
• raphlinus 6y ago
  Congrats on the promo! It didn't quite retain me either, but I was a lowly staff software engineer. I am returning to Google though (back to the Google Fonts team), and it's entirely possible we'll get a chance to work together again.
  • abarth 6y ago
    I look forward to it!
  • dewitt 6y ago
    Yay! Welcome back!
• baybal2 6y ago
  Adam, how much were you involved in drafting this manifest?
  • abarth 6y ago
    I'm sorry, but I'm not sure what you mean by "this manifest." The blog post linked above was written by Wayne Piekarski, who is a Developer Advocate for Fuchsia. My role in the project is as a software engineer.
• asadawadia 6y ago
  What was your journey to principal?