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From: Simon Stelling <blubb@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Sunrise trusted committers with bugzilla access
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:56:16
Message-Id: 4509891A.9040000@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Sunrise trusted committers with bugzilla access by Stefan Schweizer
1 Stefan Schweizer wrote:
2 > To my fellow Gentoo developers,
3 >
4 > in the Sunrise project we have some users who are ambitious and cotribute
5 > more than a few ebuilds. Those regulars have the possibility to take the
6 > ebuild quiz and acquire the title "Sunrise trusted committer". Those
7 > sunrise committers can use extended bugzilla permissions to edit keywords
8 > EBUILD and REQUEST for example in the maintainer-wanted@ and
9 > maintainer-needed@ bugzilla region where usually developers clean up litle
10 > or have no interest in spending time on.
11
12 I am not up to date, but I know that when the AT project was started, it
13 wasn't possible to give out access on specific keywords but just the
14 KEYWORD field as a whole. Not that it would make a difference, just
15 mentioning it here...
16
17 > All this is addressed and working with the current arch testers procedure.
18 > The plan is to just treat Sunrise trusted committers the same as arch or
19 > herd testers. The difference is that they operate on ebuilds of all
20 > flavours that interest themself in the sunrise overlay and not on a certain
21 > herd of packages. Neither do they focus on testing for a specific
22 > architecture. Just coding is their work, not testing - which explains the
23 > difference in the name.
24
25 Huh, I hope they will do testing :P
26
27 --
28 Kind Regards,
29
30 Simon Stelling
31 Gentoo/AMD64 developer
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