Gentoo Archives: gentoo-project

From: Raymond Jennings <shentino@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o, mentors@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Merging Trustees and Council / Developers and Foundation
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2017 23:04:39
Message-Id: CAGDaZ_pDtS6=b2gn3pxPHjqSk9XcT57E4Ori7wNm2hxhSjx6yA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Merging Trustees and Council / Developers and Foundation by Rich Freeman
1 So, just to double check, and for the purpose of verification, what is the
2 exact step by step method for becoming a "developer" of the kind that has a
3 @g.o, and not necessarily a developer with full commit access?
4
5 And more to the point, is current documentation on the subject accurate and
6 up to date?
7
8
9 On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
10
11 > On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 5:20 PM, Raymond Jennings <shentino@×××××.com>
12 > wrote:
13 > > I personally oppose merging the foundation and dev community.
14 > >
15 > > As someone else pointed out, there are ways to contribute to gentoo that
16 > do
17 > > not involve developing.
18 >
19 > Developer = having an @gentoo.org email address. People who are
20 > significant contributors in any way should be able to apply to get
21 > these, and the process already exists for this.
22 >
23 > We used to make a distinction between "developers" and "staff." Now
24 > it seems the preferred terms are developers with and without commit
25 > access.
26 >
27 > --
28 > Rich
29 >
30 >

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