Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo, GitHub, and the Social Contract

[Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 3:57 AM, Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org> wrote:
> It is unfortunate that things fall through the cracks at infra, and
> more and more useful tools are not provided by services under
> gentoo.org, but by personal initiatives and hosted on other domains.
>
> For this reason I propose that Sven Wegener, Michał Górny, and Patrick
> Lauer be made members of the infra team, because they get things done
> that the other infra members don't (for whatever reason, not pointing
> fingers here). I'm thinking here about useful tools such as:
>
> - https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo-portage-rsync-mirror
> - http://cgit.gentooexperimental.org/
> - #gentoo-commits bot
> - AutoRepoman

I think this is an interesting proposal. While the current infra
members are no doubt technically strong, I think there currently
exists an organization problem in that team in that they are failing
to scale with the rest of the community. I have offered to help out a
bunch of times, as I know others have, and clearly some people are
making a positive contribution without being infra members, but it
feels to me like all of that would be much more efficient if they were
actually part of infra.

I do think this discussion deserves its own thread, since this thread
is already being contaminated with way too much repetition.

Cheers,

Dirkjan