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From: Alec Warner <warnera6@×××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:43:57
Message-Id: 43262E51.7050504@egr.msu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff by "Stephen P. Becker"
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4 Stephen P. Becker wrote:
5 >> You're somehow implying that being an AT is not as good as being a dev.
6 >
7 >
8 > Wrong.
9 >
10 >> My understanding is that this GLEP is supposed to make AT as good as
11 >> being a dev, but with a different role, one that doesn't need commit
12 >> access.
13 >
14 >
15 > My point exactly! Why have another category?
16 >
17 >> If the people involved decide they want to become committing
18 >> devs, it also make it easier to make that transition. If they don't
19 >> want to commit, they can stay as an AT.
20 >
21 >
22 > Then shall we reclassify all the developers that currently don't have
23 > commit access to the portage tree?
24 >
25 > -Steve
26
27 And how is an "Arch Dev" different from say a member of devrel? It's
28 not a category per se, it's a role. Person X does Devrel, person Y does
29 portage, you do Arch Developing on MIPS, and new dev Z is an Arch
30 Tester. How does this make anything more difficult than it already is?
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