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On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 08:08:41AM -0500, Mike Doty wrote: |
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> No, you're confusing the different definitions of developers. In the |
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> gentoo sense of everyone is a developer(ebuild, infra, devrel, even |
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> forums), then yes, you would have to consider the AT as a "developer." |
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Uuuuh, watch your language. This was a hot topic before ;-) |
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> Due to the fact that it hasn't been official, providing them with the |
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> tools to get their job done has been a challenge. I don't think it's |
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> right to ask for read-only CVS without them being official for example. |
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Makes sense. They need official tools to do official work, so make |
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them official. |
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> While most developers have accepted them and use them, there are still |
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> those that look down on them. What can I say, other than a distro like |
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> gentoo inherently breeds a certain level of 31337ism, however misplaced |
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> or inappropriate it is. |
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At least the fact that some people cry out loud as soon someone talks |
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about people who don't mess up ebuilds as developers is a bit strange. |
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> So, the choice for an AT to not pursue becoming a ebuild/arch dev is |
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> theirs to make, with a wide variety of reasons. It's not that they lack |
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> in any one skill that would otherwise make them a developer. |
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They may know even more than people commited to doing infra, devrel or |
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forums work who are full members as well. Gentoo is more than a bunch |
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of developers and there are also a lot of folks filling different |
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positions (e.g. developer and infra). |
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In fact current ATs are already doing the ebuild quiz, which is |
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"harder" than the staff quiz others do. They do important work even |
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though it's not _that_ 13117 as writing ebuilds. I really don't see a |
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reason why they should not get full staff priviledges. |
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After all Gentoo is the result of our united efforts. We need people |
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writing code as well as docs team, infra, forums, devrel, AT and all |
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the other folks i forgot now. |
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cheers, |
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Wernfried |
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Wernfried Haas (amne) - amne at gentoo dot org |
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Gentoo Forums: http://forums.gentoo.org |
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IRC: #gentoo-forums on freenode - email: forum-mods at gentoo dot org |
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