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On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:21:22 +0200 Simon Stelling <blubb@g.o> |
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| > Uhm... Different people have different skill levels. Some of this is |
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| > down to natural ability, some of it is down to experience. Arch |
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| > testers have not yet proven themselves. Full developers have (at |
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| > least in theory...). |
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| Yes, in theory. Too bad reality doesn't match with theory far too |
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| often. I for example became dev after just submitting a few |
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| "app-foo/bar works on amd64" bugs and moaning because it took too |
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| long to get them fixed. Of course i knew portage, but I really can't |
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| say that I have proven myself to be useful to the project when I |
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| joined it. BUT, this was before the idea of an AT existed. Today, |
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| every user who wants to become a amd64 developer, has to become AT |
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| first, to prove himself, so the problem you're speaking of was fixed, |
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| not caused by ATs. |
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Which is exactly why I like the idea of ATs, and exactly why I'm |
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against giving them in effect 'full dev minus cvs write' powers. That |
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can wait until they reach full dev status. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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