From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JWy4j-0003NV-4w for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:10:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E5735E0498; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 18:10:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C059CE0498 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 18:10:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.21.4.243] (mnit.ac.in [210.212.97.131]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B076D66CA6 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 18:10:39 +0000 (UTC) Message-Id: From: Anant Narayanan To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20080305184531.952d9550.genone@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for March Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 23:40:19 +0530 References: <20080301103002.A2AE266A22@smtp.gentoo.org> <20080305184531.952d9550.genone@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) X-Archives-Salt: 0bd71110-4300-4881-b4ca-f63261175538 X-Archives-Hash: f9d76c1f16d2e32cee0b4ee332549a6a > Please elaborate on how a "full.fledged developer" would differ from a > "package maintainer" technically. What requirements and/or > priviledges do you think could be reduced? I haven't thought that through fully (in hopes of a few good suggestions!), but off the top of my head, maintainers don't need to complete the staff quiz. On the technical side, about the only thing they really require is a sound knowledge of bash, the do's and don'ts of ebuilds, and knowledge of how to use eclasses. Perhaps we can create a separate quiz for maintainers, which stresses on versioning, handling bump requests, keeping ebuilds clean etc, and nothing more. I'm willing to help form the quiz, but I certainly can't do it alone. As for the privileges, maintainers wouldn't need an email account, commit access to portions not concerning their package(s), voice on #gentoo-dev... Essentially, we need to keep limit the privileges to whatever infra can provide within reasonable limits - I expect the number of maintainers to be far greater than the developer count. On another note, we may introduce a rule that no package may be marked stable unless a "full-fledged developer" or QA member has approved it (along with the usual arch-tester stamp). This might help in ensuring the quality of our stable tree. -- Anant -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list