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From: "Nathan L. Adams" <nadams@××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:43:19
Message-Id: 432621B0.3080301@ieee.org
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 >> My understanding is that this GLEP is supposed to make AT as good as
6 >> being a dev, but with a different role, one that doesn't need commit
7 >> access.
8 >
9 >
10 > My point exactly! Why have another category?
11
12 Because their role is *not* to develop, its to *test*.
13
14 >> If the people involved decide they want to become committing
15 >> devs, it also make it easier to make that transition. If they don't
16 >> want to commit, they can stay as an AT.
17 >
18 > Then shall we reclassify all the developers that currently don't have
19 > commit access to the portage tree?
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21 No, *their* role is to be develop, not test.
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23 To have or not to have commit access is not the question. To develop or
24 to test (and get recognized for it as well) is the question.
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26 Nathan
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