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On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 06:51:00PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 6:42 PM Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 01:45:25PM -0700, Alec Warner wrote: |
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> > > > 3. It is really meaningless. Casting a vote does not really indicate |
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> > > > any interest in GF. It only indicates that someone has done the minimal |
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> > > > effort to avoid being kicked. There is no reason to conflate the two. |
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> > > I'm certainly interested in other avenues of interest, but I don't see very |
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> > > many in this thread other than "AGM attendance" and "asking people if they |
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> > > are interested[0]" |
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> > - Does involvement on mailing lists count? |
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> > - What other ways outside development might somebody be involved in |
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> > Gentoo? Not everybody is a developer, let alone an ebuild developer. |
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> > What if we wound up with PR people who weren't devs at all, but loved |
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> > to talk about Gentoo? |
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> Gentoo developers do not have to have commit access. If somebody is |
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> doing significant PR work for Gentoo then they should be made a |
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> developer. Developers do not need to pass the ebuild quiz. |
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I meant "developer" as the generic "one who develops software". |
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Ebuilds are not the only code-like activity, there's multiple other |
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software packages that Gentoo relies on: openrc, netifrc, genkernel, |
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catalyst, eselect are some of them. |
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They may have commit access to those packages, and not to ebuilds. |
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I need to distinguish between: |
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- ebuild coding contribution |
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- non-ebuild-coding contribution |
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- non-coding contribution |
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> Anybody with an @g.o email address is a developer. |
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> We used to use the term "staff" but anybody who used to be considered |
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> "staff" is now considered a "developer." |
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I stated when the switch away from "staff" was done, that I felt we were |
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doing ourselves a dis-service by not picking a better word than |
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"developer" - something that includes all of the contributions above, |
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without implying specific technical skills. "Contributor" was down-voted |
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at the time. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Treasurer |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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