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Title: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff |
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Version: $Revision: 1.2 $ |
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Last-Modified: $Date: 2005/09/15 21:01:51 $ |
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Author: Simon Stelling <blubb@gentoo.org>, |
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Status: Draft |
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Type: Standards Track |
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Content-Type: text/x-rst |
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Created: 7-Sep-2005 |
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Post-History: 15-Sep-2005 |
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Abstract |
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Arch Testers should be treated as official Gentoo staff. |
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Motivation |
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Since Mike Doty (kingtaco) created an Arch Tester (AT) project in January 2005 |
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to reduce the developer's load and the amount of open keywording bugs for the |
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amd64 porting team, many users have volunteered to become ATs. They are doing |
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a fair share of everyday's work to keep the amd64 and ppc trees up to date. |
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While they spent many hours and even had to pass the staff quiz, they are |
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currently not recognized as official members of Gentoo. |
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Specification |
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ATs should basically be treated as staff. This includes the following changes |
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to the current situation: |
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- Get a @gentoo.org email address |
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- Get read-only access to the gentoo-x86 repository |
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Additionally, the mentoring period should be shortened to two weeks if an AT |
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wants to take the end quiz to become a developer, assuming he has been AT for |
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at least two weeks. The amd64 porting team has handled situations |
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like this for a while and only made positive experiences. |
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Also, the idea of an arch tester as a trustworthy user who is able to test |
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critical changes (such as hard masked software branches), could be expanded |
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to other herds. These 'ATs' wouldn't be called arch testers as the 'arch' is |
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irritating, instead, herd tester (HT) could be used. |
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As arch testers (and herd testers) become official staff, they should be |
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handled by DevRel. |
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Since ATs don't want to have to handle the big 'communication overhead' |
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normally, they won't be subscribed to the gentoo-core mailing list and won't |
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be able to vote. |
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Backwards Compatibility |
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All current active arch testers should be migrated. |
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Copyright |
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This document has been placed in the public domain. |
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