Re: [gentoo-dev] Sunrise trusted committers with bugzilla access

[Simon Stelling <blubb@gentoo.org>]

Stefan Schweizer wrote:
> To my fellow Gentoo developers,
> 
> in the Sunrise project we have some users who are ambitious and cotribute
> more than a few ebuilds. Those regulars have the possibility to take the
> ebuild quiz and acquire the title "Sunrise trusted committer". Those
> sunrise committers can use extended bugzilla permissions to edit keywords
> EBUILD and REQUEST for example in the maintainer-wanted@ and
> maintainer-needed@ bugzilla region where usually developers clean up litle
> or have no interest in spending time on.

I am not up to date, but I know that when the AT project was started, it
wasn't possible to give out access on specific keywords but just the
KEYWORD field as a whole. Not that it would make a difference, just
mentioning it here...

> All this is addressed and working with the current arch testers procedure.
> The plan is to just treat Sunrise trusted committers the same as arch or
> herd testers. The difference is that they operate on ebuilds of all
> flavours that interest themself in the sunrise overlay and not on a certain
> herd of packages. Neither do they focus on testing for a specific
> architecture. Just coding is their work, not testing - which explains the
> difference in the name.

Huh, I hope they will do testing :P

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Kind Regards,

Simon Stelling
Gentoo/AMD64 developer
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