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05.02.2014 14:58, justin пишет: |
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> On 05/02/14 11:49, Sergey Popov wrote: |
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>> 04.02.2014 23:47, Donnie Berkholz пишет: |
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>>> On 18:57 Wed 29 Jan , justin wrote: |
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>>>> He is joining us as staffer (for now, let's see what the future brings) |
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>>>> to work on portage (the PM) development, where he already contributed code. |
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>>> Anyone else think it ironic that we call actual developers "staffers" |
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>>> while ebuild maintainers qualify as "developers"? |
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>>> Note that I am arguing more for classifying the former as the latter |
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>>> than vice versa. |
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>>> |
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>> I do not think so. Staffer can be designer, doc translator etc. Ebuild |
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>> maintainance requires programming skill(at basic level, yes, but still). |
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> Donnie is right here. Giving people appropriate titles is a motivation |
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> factor (see your footer gathering "lead" titles). So we should _not_ |
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> call someone who is hacking our PM "staffer" but rather "developer". And |
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> call a translator, designer, package maintainer... by its title. |
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> I am called developer, but I am actually a package maintainer. This is |
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> what my expertise is not coding. |
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> The only question do we need to have the developer/staffer title |
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> discrimination for know who has tree access or not. And I would say no, |
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> as there is nothing in the official infrastructure like LDAP telling us |
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> that. |
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Good point, agreed. PM developer should not be called 'staffer' even he |
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has not access to gx86 - he just may not do ebuilds :-) |
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Best regards, Sergey Popov |
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