Re: [gentoo-project] [RFC] Ebuild quizzes for existing developers

[Andrew Savchenko]

On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 08:08:30 -0600 Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 10:43 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to discuss a proposal aiming to improve the general quality of
> > ebuilds in the Gentoo repository.
> >
>
> Is something actually broken?
>
> IMO discretion and ability to comply with policies/etc are probably
> far more important than rattling off EAPI/eclass/GLEP trivia.  They're
> just hard to measure for new recruits so we use the quizzes as a proxy
> for estimating whether somebody will be able to fit in.  If somebody
> could pass the quizzes in the past, and have a fairly clean record
> inside Gentoo, then I don't really see the point in having them
> continue to jump through hoops.
>
> If they're making mistakes in their commits then just focus on the
> mistakes they're making and boot devs who don't raise their general
> level of quality.  You don't need to guess whether an existing dev
> will mess up the repo - they already have commit access.  If they
> haven't been breaking things left and right so far, it is unlikely
> that they will start to do so in the future.
>
> Now, docs for developers about EAPI changes have been written in the
> past and are undoubtedly useful.  I just don't see the need to give
> them a certification quiz of some sort.

Rich, apparently this was a hapless 1st April's joke.

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko