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Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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>Jakub Moc wrote: [Fri Nov 18 2005, 06:07:48PM CST] |
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>>19.11.2005, 0:58:29, Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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>>>My preference is that the subdomain chosen should succinctly reflect |
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>>>the role that arch testers serve. My personal preference would be |
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>>>to choose something like "aide", "helper", "assistant", or something |
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>>>similar. (Indeed, I'd have preferred "volunteer" if it weren't for |
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>>>the niggling fact that we're all volunteers.) |
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>>Once again - I don't know if it's not been clear enough so far, from |
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>>the replies on this topic: I don't have time nor desire to dig out |
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>>somewhere on the web what's the correct email I should use to contact |
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>>someone... there are about 200 more or less active Gentoo devs around |
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>>and the last thing I need is to ponder upon what project/role that |
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>>particular person is on. What's the benefit? |
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>Perhaps you should re-read the GLEP? Or the log from the last two |
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>Council meetings? Nobody is suggesting that devs should have their |
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>e-mail addresses changed to foo@××××××××××××××××.org. The issue is what |
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>e-mail address to give people who are helping out Gentoo but not |
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>actually devs. |
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@g.o |
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>Since these people are not going to be maintaining |
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But they are helping out Gentoo in a very direct way right? |
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>packages, it seems unlikely that you're going to have to spend all that |
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>much time trying to figure out how to contact them; just hit "r" like |
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>you would with any other user. |
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It'd be more time than if it was just @g.o , that's for sure. |
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>Incidentally, the benefit is to make users who are actively helping |
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>Gentoo feel like they're part of the family. |
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That's why i said, give them @g.o |
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> It was decided that a |
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>straight @gentoo.org address would be confusing, though, since most |
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>people associate those addresses with developers. |
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Let's write a GLEP to clarify that @g.o addresses is for people who |
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cooperates |
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(in a direct way) with Gentoo. |
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> I'm fairly agnostic |
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>on the whole thing, myself, but since the Council voted to approve the |
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>GLEP, I was simply trying to do my best to put forth a proposal that fit |
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>within that framework. |
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>-g2boojum- |
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