Hi all,
This has been in the todo-list for quite a while, but finally it's done. I'm
curious what you think of it.
Have a nice day,
--
Simon Stelling
Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
GLEP: 41
Title: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff
Version: $Revision: 1.1 $
Last-Modified: $Date: 2005/09/07 18:53:20 $
Author: Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Status: Draft
Type: Standards Track
Content-Type: text/x-rst
Created: 7-Sep-2005
Post-History:
Abstract
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Arch Testers should be treated as official Gentoo staff.
Motivation
==========
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.
Specification
=============
ATs should basically be treated as staff. This includes the following changes
to the current situation:
- Get a @gentoo.org email address
- Get read-only access to the gentoo-x86 repository
Additionally, the mentoring period should be shortened to 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. Users which want to become developers should also run
through the process of an AT. The amd64 porting team has handled situations
like this for a while and only made positive experiences.
Also, the idea of an arch tester as a trustful user who is able to test
critical changes (such as hard masked software branches), should be expanded
to every herd. These 'ATs' wouldn't be called arch testers as the 'arch' is
irritating, instead, herd tester (HT) could be used.
As arch testers (and herd testers) become official staff, they should be
handled by DevRel.
Backwards Compatibility
=======================
All current arch testers should be migrated to staff.
Copyright
=========
This document has been placed in the public domain.
