Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

[Kevin F. Quinn]

On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 13:17:56 -0700
"Daniel Robbins" <drobbins.daniel@×××××.com> wrote:

> So, again, since you are participating as a key member in an official
> Gentoo project, which is a developer-only privilege, you should either
> have your dev access reinstated or be removed from the project.

This is incorrect.  The full implication here is that only devs can
contribute significantly to Gentoo - which would be a big backwards
step, and something we have gone through a fair amount of heart-ache to
avoid.  We have evolved various ways in which users can contribute
valuable work; not just by posting into bugzilla (which was the only
mechanism available when I joined, shortly after you left I think) but
also working alongside "proxy devs", or working in with devs in
overlays, working as Arch Testers and so on.  Personally I work with
several people who are not Gentoo devs, but are _critically_ important
to the work that I do for Gentoo.  After all, although we call
ourselves developers, really we're integrators.

Today, being a dev (which essentially means having commit access
to Gentoo repositories) is mostly about taking responsibility for what
is finally committed.

-- 
Kevin F. Quinn