Re: [gentoo-project] Council appointed leaders for QA and DevRel

[Roy Bamford]

On 2011.08.14 15:39, Markos Chandras wrote:
> On 08/14/2011 03:19 PM, Roy Bamford wrote:
> > Team,
> >
> > ...
[snip]
> > Why do devrel members need to be developers? Users with the correct
> > skill set can do the job just as well, if they are interested.
> devrel members are mainly recruiters, which requires ebuild and
> organization knowledge. If a users has this knowledge it is not hard
> to become a developer and join recruiters
We are discussing devrel here, not recruiters.  I was under the 
impression (perhaps mistakenly) that devrel and recruiters were two 
separate projects.  If one has become a subset of the other by virtue 
of overlapping skill requirements and project membership maybe thats a 
pointer that the projects should be merged. While that's interesting, 
its not the topic of this thread.

Getting back to the topic, I do not understand why someone (not a 
dev) cannot be a member of devrel only. Such an individual could be 
required to become a staffer following their acceptance into devrel.    
 

>
> >>
> >> QA: 6-month term. Developers are nominated by others or they can
> >> self-nominated
> > Why do QA members need to be developers? Transparent competency is
> > what counts in all areas of a volunteer project.
> >
> QA members need to have access to gentoo-x86/ tree to fix problems as
> soon as possible. This is a purely technical role so portage access
> is mandatory.
If time is always of the essence, that's a perfectly valid reason.

> --
> Regards,
> Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
>

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