John Mylchreest wrote:
> Infra developers are more often than not package maintainers etc as
> well, and have cvs rights. if they don't have cvs rights, they look
> after core infrastructure which is vital to Gentoo's survival.

Forums built a community.
Quote: '"Best support" went to the Gentoo Forums'

http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20050314-newsletter.xml#doc_chap4

> Not to take away from the importance (or lack of depending on view) of
> moderating the forums, but they are not as critical as official
> literature and infrastructure, and also do not necessarily require in
> depth knowledge of the technical aspects of any post.

So I guess it doesn't matter to you if we would advise to use
-0mg-optimized flags rather then the ones that (core-)developers recommend?

> Regardless, I would prefer the term "Staff."

Sure. As I stated before I'd be fine with that.

> Also, I don't really see the need in having shell access to the
> developer boxes. what use would this be?

To host patches, docs etc. Just like every other devs/staff guy does
atm. (Sure. toucan isn't meant to be a download server and we're aware
of this fact.)

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