On 13.07.2011 05:15, Theo Chatzimichos wrote: > Hi > > I've been discussing with some devrel members in the past about gentoo/user > and gentoo/contributor cloaks. I though (and it was not only me) that > gentoo/contributor cloaks are given to ATs and HTs only, so I wanted to give > gentoo/user cloaks to some people that do various stuff apart from writing code > (stuff like representing gentoo in conferences, give support to others in > gentoo localized IRC channels, translate, promote the distro, etc). I've been > told though that devrel doesn't provide gentoo/user cloaks any more, and what > could be done is to give gentoo/contributor cloaks to someone if a developer > can vouch for him. There is no official policy though, Jorge would start a > discussion but never did, so I'm sending this mail with his approval, to start > a discussion and finally set a policy. > My opinion is that gentoo/contributor cloaks are very important to be given to > users. Especially amongst greek community many people like the idea of getting > a gentoo cloak. But devrel has to keep a list of those people (plus the > developer who vouched for them), possibly somewhere under the projspace (I > believe it could be public, yes). > I hope we have a final decision soon, as I don't think it is an easy to solve > task. Keeping a list and periodically going through it seems fine to me. Are you or someone else interested in joining devrel to get this implemented and maintained? The policy should probably be written as a GLEP and I can help with that but until GSoC is over I am pretty much fully booked for Gentoo time so I would like to avoid championing it at this point. Regards, Petteri