Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 21:39 +0200, Simon Stelling wrote:

> ATs should basically be treated as staff. This includes the following changes
> to the current situation:
>
> - Get a @gentoo.org email address

Personally think this might only be fair.

> - Get read-only access to the gentoo-x86 repository
>

Can understand the reasoning for this ... we have acl's, etc to make
this possible?

> Additionally, the mentoring period should be shortened to two weeks if an AT
> wants to take the end quiz to become a developer, assuming he has been AT for
> at least two weeks. Users which want to become developers should also run
> through the process of an AT. The amd64 porting team has handled situations
> like this for a while and only made positive experiences.
>

Not too familiar on this, so i guess its going to depend on how thorough
the planned (new?) AT tests are.

> Also, the idea of an arch tester as a trustful user who is able to test
> critical changes (such as hard masked software branches), should be expanded
> to every herd. These 'ATs' wouldn't be called arch testers as the 'arch' is
> irritating, instead, herd tester (HT) could be used.
>
> As arch testers (and herd testers) become official staff, they should be
> handled by DevRel.
>
>
> Backwards Compatibility
> =======================
>
> All current arch testers should be migrated to staff.
>
>
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Martin Schlemmer