Re: [gentoo-dev] Email subdomain

[Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org>]

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Curtis Napier wrote: [Fri Nov 18 2005, 04:44:53PM CST]
> >The problem with staff is that staff who aren't ATs/HTs won't be using
> >it...
> >
> 
> I agree with this. Those of us who don't have commit rights to the tree 
> should have an @staff.g.o, people like me for instance. I happen to be 
> part of two projects but neither gives me access to the tree so I would 
> get an @staff.g.o and am fine with that. It lets people I email outside 
> of the project know that I am staff and not a developer.

I rather strongly disagree.  It is true that in the past we have used
the word "staff" to denote devs who do not have gentoo-x86 commit
access.  I've never been in favor of that terminology, however.  Devs
are devs, whether they have gentoo-x86 commit access or not.  Our doc
devs or infra devs can break Gentoo in ways just as horrific as our
devs w/ tree access can.  Infra, doc, or tree access just determines
which part of Gentoo you're allowed to break (in a rather twisted way of
looking at things).

It's terribly important to me that we not somehow end up with
first-class devs and second-class devs.  

My preference is that the subdomain chosen should succinctly reflect the
role that arch testers serve.  My personal preference would be to choose
something like "aide", "helper", "assistant", or something similar.
(Indeed, I'd have preferred "volunteer" if it weren't for the niggling
fact that we're all volunteers.)

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