[gentoo-project] gentoo/user and gentoo/contributor cloaks

[Theo Chatzimichos]

Hi

I've been discussing with some devrel members in the past about gentoo/user 
and gentoo/contributor cloaks. I though (and it was not only me) that 
gentoo/contributor cloaks are given to ATs and HTs only, so I wanted to give 
gentoo/user cloaks to some people that do various stuff apart from writing code 
(stuff like representing gentoo in conferences, give support to others in 
gentoo localized IRC channels, translate, promote the distro, etc). I've been 
told though that devrel doesn't provide gentoo/user cloaks any more, and what 
could be done is to give gentoo/contributor cloaks to someone if a developer 
can vouch for him. There is no official policy though, Jorge would start a 
discussion but never did, so I'm sending this mail with his approval, to start 
a discussion and finally set a policy.
My opinion is that gentoo/contributor cloaks are very important to be given to 
users. Especially amongst greek community many people like the idea of getting 
a gentoo cloak. But devrel has to keep a list of those people (plus the 
developer who vouched for them), possibly somewhere under the projspace (I 
believe it could be public, yes).
I hope we have a final decision soon, as I don't think it is an easy to solve 
task.
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Theo Chatzimichos (tampakrap) | blog.tampakrap.gr
Gentoo KDE/Qt, Planet, Overlays