Re: [gentoo-dev] tentative x86 arch team glep

[Luis F. Araujo]

Mike Doty wrote:

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> Luis F. Araujo wrote:
> | Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
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> |> On 5/9/2005 1:29:57, Ciaran McCreesh (ciaranm@g.o) wrote:
> |>
> |>
> |>> On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 1:12:54 +0200 "Kevin F. Quinn"
> <kevquinn@g.o>
> |>> wrote:
> |>> | 3) All packages need to be assigned an x86 arch team member
> |>> |    responsible.
> |>>
> |>> Why?
> |>>
> |>
> |>
> |> Because if only the x86 arch team can mark stuff stable, anything
> |> without representation on the x86 arch team will stay unstable
> forever.
> |> Maybe rather than one specific arch team member, several would
> |> undertake to manage otherwise unassigned packages.
> |>
> |>
> | Well, but, assigning each ebuild an x86 arch member is not the same
> than
> | to have the package mantainer taking care of that? , i think the idea
> | with the arch team
> | is to centralize QA.
> |
> |>
> |>
> |>> | 6) I notice the amd64 team requre their arch testers to
> |>> |    take the ebuild quiz; I think this is a bit harsh, as
> |>> |    arch testers are regular users without commit access to
> |>> |    CVS etc.  A simpler quiz targetted at ensuring the arch
> |>> |    testers know what is expected of them would lower the
> |>> |    bar and should encourage more users to join in.  Using
> |>> |    the ebuild quiz means you get people who quickly become
> |>> |    devs in their own right...
> |>>
> |>> The ebuild quiz isn't particularly difficult... If the proposed
> "write
> |>> an ebuild for equizapp" question goes through then maybe they
> could be
> |>> exempt from that until they need cvs access, but the main ebuild quiz
> |>> just tests basic understanding.
> |>>
> |>
> |>
> |> I guess it comes down to what you want a tester to do. In my mind, the
> |> task of a tester is to emerge the package normally, record the use
> flag
> |> configuration, and exercise the application as much as possible.
> |> Possibly
> |> repeating with other use flag configurations.  If you want testers
> to do
> |> ebuild QA, then the ebuild quiz becomes relevant, but I don't think
> it's
> |> a good idea..
> |>
> |>
> |>
> |>
> | We could write a basic 'arch team' quiz?. It might be a slightly
> | modified version
> | of the ebuild quiz.If the arch team menber wanna be a Gentoo dev with
> | commit access he could
> | just take the ebuild quiz later.
> |
> | And if for example someone takes the ebuild quiz , he could be both a
> | dev and a arch team
> | member of course, in other words, the arch team quiz would be a
> sub-set of
> | the ebuild quiz targeted for arch teams.
>
> another example of confusion of what AT means.  AT == archtester, not
> arch team.
>
>
Oh , i thought we were discussing about get an x86 arch team here.

But yes, the same would apply for the arch testers term too.

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