On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 08:08:41AM -0500, Mike Doty wrote:
> No, you're confusing the different definitions of developers. In the
> gentoo sense of everyone is a developer(ebuild, infra, devrel, even
> forums), then yes, you would have to consider the AT as a "developer."
Uuuuh, watch your language. This was a hot topic before ;-)
> Due to the fact that it hasn't been official, providing them with the
> tools to get their job done has been a challenge. I don't think it's
> right to ask for read-only CVS without them being official for example.
Makes sense. They need official tools to do official work, so make
them official.
> While most developers have accepted them and use them, there are still
> those that look down on them. What can I say, other than a distro like
> gentoo inherently breeds a certain level of 31337ism, however misplaced
> or inappropriate it is.
At least the fact that some people cry out loud as soon someone talks
about people who don't mess up ebuilds as developers is a bit strange.
> So, the choice for an AT to not pursue becoming a ebuild/arch dev is
> theirs to make, with a wide variety of reasons. It's not that they lack
> in any one skill that would otherwise make them a developer.
They may know even more than people commited to doing infra, devrel or
forums work who are full members as well. Gentoo is more than a bunch
of developers and there are also a lot of folks filling different
positions (e.g. developer and infra).
In fact current ATs are already doing the ebuild quiz, which is
"harder" than the staff quiz others do. They do important work even
though it's not _that_ 13117 as writing ebuilds. I really don't see a
reason why they should not get full staff priviledges.
After all Gentoo is the result of our united efforts. We need people
writing code as well as docs team, infra, forums, devrel, AT and all
the other folks i forgot now.
cheers,
Wernfried
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