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Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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> As I said before, the arch testers themselves aren't asking for |
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> being a developer but rather for additional tools to help them do their |
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> work. |
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> I've said it in the first meeting and I'll reiterate: what is the sentiment |
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> of the arch testers in this case (if they are still reading this thread)? |
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> Wkr, |
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> Sven Vermeulen |
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> PS I would be quite surprised if there is *one* arch tester who feels good |
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> with this entire thread; it doesn't show of much appreciation between |
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> people. There is a huge difference between saying that a group has "made |
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> an unfortunate decision" or "did not grasp the essence of the proposal |
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> and situation needed to make a good decision", and "abuse of powers". |
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By far and large, the most important feature of that GLEP is the cvs-ro |
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access which would allow us as ATs to get updates to the tree as quickly |
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as possible, and (as someone mentioned previously) avoid getting banned |
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from the rsync servers for trying to do so. |
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In actuality, the email address isn't that big of a deal - I acknowledge |
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that it was put in the GLEP by the AMD64 devs as a form of recognition |
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for the work that we do; but it server other purposes as well - namely, |
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recognition on bugzilla that we were in fact members of an arch team. |
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This would save developers the trouble of looking our email addresses up |
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in a list on the arch team page, and prevent users from submitting |
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'copycat' bugzilla reports about the stability of packages, not |
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realizing that these bugs were actually submitted by arch testers. |
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Frankly, I (not speaking for the rest of the testers, but I'm sure they |
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agree to some extent) didn't expect this to explode into the issue it |
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has become, and don't really care what domain name we get on an address |
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- we would be happy to get one at all. If the GLEP needs to be delayed |
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again to make everyone happy, that's fine with me. There was obviously |
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some miscommunication over the whole situtation, and I don't think that |
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that is any reason for people to get violent. |
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Cv |
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