Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

[Jon Portnoy <avenj@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:35:11PM +0200, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote:
> On 6/28/05, Fernando J. Pereda <ferdy@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:19:34PM +0200, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote:
> > > > I still don't see *WHY* you should be different from us. If you want to
> > > > manage your recruits then they can't be gentoo staff.
> > >
> > > One reason could be that we are _not_ going to be called developers but staff.
> > 
> > Can anybody explain me the difference between them ?
> 
> Well, you better discuss that with your fellow developers. It was they
> who didn't want us to become developers and gave us the title of staff
> instead.

Developers have CVS access; take the ebuild quiz and you're a developer, 
take the staff quiz (the eight-question quiz some mods apparently don't 
like for whatever bizarre reason...) and you're staff

Overall I'd say I think the best course of action is for the forum 
admins & whatever high-level executive decision making moderators to 
become staff and for the forums to become a valid (sub)project, then 
they can add their other folks as needed. I don't see any need for the 
'all or nothing' approach. Frankly I don't see any harm in people not 
being totally clear on which mods are "staff" and which aren't (what 
practical difference does it make?)

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