Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for March

[Anant Narayanan]

> Please elaborate on how a "full.fledged developer" would differ from a
> "package maintainer" technically. What requirements and/or
> priviledges do you think could be reduced?

I haven't thought that through fully (in hopes of a few good  
suggestions!), but off the top of my head, maintainers don't need to  
complete the staff quiz. On the technical side, about the only thing  
they really require is a sound knowledge of bash, the do's and don'ts  
of ebuilds, and knowledge of how to use eclasses. Perhaps we can  
create a separate quiz for maintainers, which stresses on versioning,  
handling bump requests, keeping ebuilds clean etc, and nothing more.  
I'm willing to help form the quiz, but I certainly can't do it alone.

As for the privileges, maintainers wouldn't need an email account,  
commit access to portions not concerning their package(s), voice on  
#gentoo-dev... Essentially, we need to keep limit the privileges to  
whatever infra can provide within reasonable limits - I expect the  
number of maintainers to be far greater than the developer count.

On another note, we may introduce a rule that no package may be marked  
stable unless a "full-fledged developer" or QA member has approved it  
(along with the usual arch-tester stamp). This might help in ensuring  
the quality of our stable tree.

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Anant
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