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GLEP: 41
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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: 2005/10/13 14:53:37 $
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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 @(subdomain_to_be_determined).gentoo.org email address. The email
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address will just be an alias, and will be forwarded to their @gentoo.org
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address if they go on to become a Gentoo developer.
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- Get read-only access to the gentoo-x86 repository. This doesn't have to be
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individual accounts, a single account, without a shell, with all of their
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keys will be sufficiant.
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There will be a 30 day probationary/mentoring period for new ATs.The lead AT/HT
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for arch/herd will be responsible for the mentoring period. If arch/herd
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doesn't have a Lead AT/HT, then either the arch/herd lead or the Strategic AT
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Lead will be responsible. The Lead AT is a seasoned developer that watches for talent,
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recruits and mentors ATs. Additionally, the mentoring period should be shortened
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to a minimum of two weeks if an AT wants to take the end quiz to become a developer,
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assuming he has been AT for at least two weeks. The amd64 porting team has handled
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situations 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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=========
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This document has been placed in the public domain.
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