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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Title:</th><td class="field-body">Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff</td>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Simon Stelling &lt;blubb&#32;&#97;t&#32;gentoo.org&gt;, Homer Parker &lt;hparker&#32;&#97;t&#32;gentoo.org&gt;</td>
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<li><a class="reference" href="#status" id="id3" name="id3">Status</a></li>
<li><a class="reference" href="#motivation" id="id4" name="id4">Motivation</a></li>
<li><a class="reference" href="#specification" id="id5" name="id5">Specification</a></li>
<li><a class="reference" href="#backwards-compatibility" id="id6" name="id6">Backwards Compatibility</a></li>
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id2" id="abstract" name="abstract">Abstract</a></h1>
<p>Arch Testers should be treated as official Gentoo staff.</p>
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id3" id="status" name="status">Status</a></h1>
<p>Rejected by the Gentoo Council on 13 Oct. 2005.  This GLEP may be resubmitted
if the issues brought up in the council meeting,
<a class="reference" href="http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20051013.txt">http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20051013.txt</a>,
are addressed in a new version of this GLEP.</p>
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id4" id="motivation" name="motivation">Motivation</a></h1>
<p>Since Mike Doty (kingtaco) created an Arch Tester (AT) project in January 2005
to reduce the developer's load and the amount of open keywording bugs for the
amd64 porting team, many users have volunteered to become ATs. They are doing
a fair share of everyday's work to keep the amd64 and ppc trees up to date.
While they spent many hours and even had to pass the staff quiz, they are
currently not recognized as official members of Gentoo.</p>
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id5" id="specification" name="specification">Specification</a></h1>
<p>ATs should basically be treated as staff. This includes the following changes
to the current situation:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Get a &#64;(subdomain_to_be_determined).gentoo.org email address. The email
address will just be an alias, and will be forwarded to their &#64;gentoo.org
address if they go on to become a Gentoo developer.</li>
<li>Get read-only access to the gentoo-x86 repository. This doesn't have to be
individual accounts, a single account, without a shell, with all of their
keys will be sufficiant.</li>
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<p>There will be a 30 day probationary/mentoring period for new ATs.The lead AT/HT
for arch/herd will be responsible for the mentoring period. If arch/herd
doesn't have a Lead AT/HT, then either the arch/herd lead or the Strategic AT
Lead will be responsible. The Lead AT is a seasoned developer that watches for talent,
recruits and mentors ATs. Additionally, the mentoring period should be shortened
to a minimum of two weeks if an AT wants to take the end quiz to become a developer,
assuming he has been AT for at least two weeks. The amd64 porting team has handled
situations like this for a while and only made positive experiences.</p>
<p>Also, the idea of an arch tester as a trustworthy user who is able to test
critical changes (such as hard masked software branches), could be expanded
to other herds. These 'ATs' wouldn't be called arch testers as the 'arch' is
irritating, instead, herd tester (HT) could be used.</p>
<p>As arch testers (and herd testers) become official staff, they should be
handled by DevRel.</p>
<p>Since ATs don't want to have to handle the big 'communication overhead'
normally, they won't be subscribed to the gentoo-core mailing list and won't
be able to vote.</p>
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id6" id="backwards-compatibility" name="backwards-compatibility">Backwards Compatibility</a></h1>
<p>All current active arch testers should be migrated.</p>
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id7" id="copyright" name="copyright">Copyright</a></h1>
<p>This document has been placed in the public domain.</p>
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300	<li><a class="reference" href="#abstract" id="id2" name="id2">Abstract</a></li>
301	<li><a class="reference" href="#status" id="id3" name="id3">Status</a></li>
302	<li><a class="reference" href="#motivation" id="id4" name="id4">Motivation</a></li>
303	<li><a class="reference" href="#specification" id="id5" name="id5">Specification</a></li>
304	<li><a class="reference" href="#backwards-compatibility" id="id6" name="id6">Backwards Compatibility</a></li>
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309	<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id2" id="abstract" name="abstract">Abstract</a></h1>
310	<p>Arch Testers should be treated as official Gentoo staff.</p>
311	</div>
312	<div class="section">
313	<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id3" id="status" name="status">Status</a></h1>
314	<p>Rejected by the Gentoo Council on 13 Oct. 2005. This GLEP may be resubmitted
315	if the issues brought up in the council meeting,
316	<a class="reference" href="http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20051013.txt">http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20051013.txt</a>,
317	are addressed in a new version of this GLEP.</p>
318	</div>
319	<div class="section">
320	<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id4" id="motivation" name="motivation">Motivation</a></h1>
321	<p>Since Mike Doty (kingtaco) created an Arch Tester (AT) project in January 2005
322	to reduce the developer's load and the amount of open keywording bugs for the
323	amd64 porting team, many users have volunteered to become ATs. They are doing
324	a fair share of everyday's work to keep the amd64 and ppc trees up to date.
325	While they spent many hours and even had to pass the staff quiz, they are
326	currently not recognized as official members of Gentoo.</p>
327	</div>
328	<div class="section">
329	<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id5" id="specification" name="specification">Specification</a></h1>
330	<p>ATs should basically be treated as staff. This includes the following changes
331	to the current situation:</p>
332	<ul class="simple">
333	<li>Get a @(subdomain_to_be_determined).gentoo.org email address. The email
334	address will just be an alias, and will be forwarded to their @gentoo.org
335	address if they go on to become a Gentoo developer.</li>
336	<li>Get read-only access to the gentoo-x86 repository. This doesn't have to be
337	individual accounts, a single account, without a shell, with all of their
338	keys will be sufficiant.</li>
339	</ul>
340	<p>There will be a 30 day probationary/mentoring period for new ATs.The lead AT/HT
341	for arch/herd will be responsible for the mentoring period. If arch/herd
342	doesn't have a Lead AT/HT, then either the arch/herd lead or the Strategic AT
343	Lead will be responsible. The Lead AT is a seasoned developer that watches for talent,
344	recruits and mentors ATs. Additionally, the mentoring period should be shortened
345	to a minimum of two weeks if an AT wants to take the end quiz to become a developer,
346	assuming he has been AT for at least two weeks. The amd64 porting team has handled
347	situations like this for a while and only made positive experiences.</p>
348	<p>Also, the idea of an arch tester as a trustworthy user who is able to test
349	critical changes (such as hard masked software branches), could be expanded
350	to other herds. These 'ATs' wouldn't be called arch testers as the 'arch' is
351	irritating, instead, herd tester (HT) could be used.</p>
352	<p>As arch testers (and herd testers) become official staff, they should be
353	handled by DevRel.</p>
354	<p>Since ATs don't want to have to handle the big 'communication overhead'
355	normally, they won't be subscribed to the gentoo-core mailing list and won't
356	be able to vote.</p>
357	</div>
358	<div class="section">
359	<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id6" id="backwards-compatibility" name="backwards-compatibility">Backwards Compatibility</a></h1>
360	<p>All current active arch testers should be migrated.</p>
361	</div>
362	<div class="section">
363	<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id7" id="copyright" name="copyright">Copyright</a></h1>
364	<p>This document has been placed in the public domain.</p>
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