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Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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> On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 09:09:29PM -0400, Luis F. Araujo wrote: |
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>>What is the problem of giving them @g.o addresses? |
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>>Why exactly do we need the distinction? (sorry, i can't see any benefit |
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>>but more confusion). |
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> The GLEP was originally created to help the architecture testers with a |
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> specific privilege: read-only CVS access. This would allow them to improve |
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> the quality of the ebuilds sooner, help the architecture teams identify |
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> working (and perhaps even more important, not-working) tools and perform |
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> tests on the global system to make sure the distribution is in top-notch |
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> shape. |
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Read-only CVS would make my life easier, as others have said it would |
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let me keep up to date without risking being banned for rsyncing every |
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30 minutes. |
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> The e-mail address was not that important, but was decided to bring it in |
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> "the package" because it would be some sort of appreciation to those users. |
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I agree, the email address is certainly not necessary, but as a couple |
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of devs have mentioned before, it might make identifying arch testers in |
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b.g.o easier. I don't know what the implementation details would be, but |
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maybe making a flag for arch testers in bugzilla could serve that |
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purpose as well. |
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> One general idea was that arch testers wouldn't be developers because they |
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> have no formal obligation to the Gentoo project: we don't expect them to put |
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> in x hours a week in Gentoo, read the gentoo-core and -dev mailinglists or |
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> even catch up with most of the events that happen in Gentoo (like GLEPs and |
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> such). This is also a request from the arch testers, because many of them |
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> *can't* devote much time to Gentoo anyway. |
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I don't and can't read -core, but I do keep an eye on -dev. I try to put |
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what time I can into testing, but realistically I don't have huge |
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volumes of free time, though I am hoping to eventually be a full dev. |
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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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> PPS |
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This thread has had a disturbing amount of bickering, and there appears |
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to be a bit of a sentiment that arch testers don't contribute anything |
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more than a normal user. I have filed and commented on more bugs in the |
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week since I became an arch tester than I had total in the 3 years I |
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have been using Gentoo before that. |
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The email addresses are also a side point of this whole discussion, it |
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won't make testing anywhere near as much easier as ro CVS access would. |
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