Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Lance Albertson
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 03:32 +0200, Lars Weiler wrote: > * Lance Albertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05/06/28 18:14 -0500]: > > I'm just getting ansty about all these new people we're bringing > > "New people"? You're joking, aren't you? Some of them are > moderators for even a longer time than you ar

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Lars Weiler
* Lance Albertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05/06/28 18:14 -0500]: > I'm just getting ansty about all these new people we're bringing "New people"? You're joking, aren't you? Some of them are moderators for even a longer time than you are a Gentoo Dev. The problem just is, that the Forums have been

[gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Duncan
Lance Albertson posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:14:11 -0500: > Ok, after talking with a few folks I want to retract my comment about no > shell access. I didn't think about the other groups (docs) that already > have shell access and retain a simliar status as

Re: [gentoo-dev] ATI Radeon Xpress 200 Drivers

2005-06-28 Thread Joshua Baergen
This might be a problem with the drivers as well. I have seen this issue on other systems with various ATI cards and I have yet to come across the solution for it. On 6/28/05, Chris Frederick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Luca Barbato wrote: > > Chris Frederick wrote: > > > > > >>I'd be happy to h

Re: [gentoo-dev] Initiation rites: sys-auth

2005-06-28 Thread Anthony Gorecki
On Tuesday, June 28, 2005 3:03 pm, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > sys-libs/nss-mysql (why we have two?) Robbat was supposed to remove this; it's passed its cut-off date quite a while ago. -- Anthony Gorecki Ectro-Linux Foundation pgplEL353X51G.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Initiation rites: sys-auth

2005-06-28 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Wednesday 29 June 2005 01:31, Kito wrote: > Yeah, I would add to the list: > app-crypt/heimdal Ok so this makes also those belonging there: app-crypt/mit-krb5 app-crypt/kth-krb -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò Gentoo Developer - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ (Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD

Re: [gentoo-dev] Initiation rites: sys-auth

2005-06-28 Thread Kito
On Jun 28, 2005, at 5:03 PM, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: Ok as I was waiting for Azarah approval after Robbat's one here we are: [23:49] az, it was kito :P i'm just waiting for your opinion about sys-auth [23:50] i cant see that anybody ever waited for my approval to do anything, b

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keys and words: ways to fail your team

2005-06-28 Thread Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
Peter Johanson wrote: >I know this is intended to be tongue in cheek, > Good. > but I have a dev in the >dotnet herd who's really pretty upset right now as a result of such >apparently scathing comments accusing him of being an evil conspirator, >a wrecker, and traitor, when it wasn't even *him*

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38 round two

2005-06-28 Thread Ricardo Loureiro
Hi all, Just a question, will there be a different group for moderators that belong to staff and moderators which doesn't belong? I'm asking this because users may relate different groups meaning official gentoo replies from gentoo staff and not official from other moderators, giving the idea of v

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Marius Mauch
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:34:14 -0500 Lance Albertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 00:20 +0200, Christian Hartmann wrote: > > > 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Lance Albertson
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 17:34 -0500, Lance Albertson wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 00:20 +0200, Christian Hartmann wrote: > > > 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.) > > Pat

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keys and words: ways to fail your team

2005-06-28 Thread Peter Johanson
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:41:37PM -0700, Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote: > Comrades! > > Once more, I come before you with sad tidings. Evil anti-gentoo > conspirators are plotting to destroy our > wonderful distribution. Yet again they tried to subvert quality and > integrity of our distributio

[gentoo-dev] Keys and words: ways to fail your team

2005-06-28 Thread Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
Comrades! Once more, I come before you with sad tidings. Evil anti-gentoo conspirators are plotting to destroy our wonderful distribution. Yet again they tried to subvert quality and integrity of our distribution by falsely claiming that certain packages build and run *gasp* stable *gasp* on platf

[gentoo-dev] Package moves as repocopies

2005-06-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been wondering lately with the discussion of yet more new categories, why don't we do repocopies to move packages? Note that I'm talking about packages switching categories and explicitly _not_ about package name changes. Although this would requ

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Lance Albertson
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 00:20 +0200, Christian Hartmann wrote: > 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.) Patches to our phpbb should only fall under 2-3 people and means moderators

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Christian Hartmann
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 Fo

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Christian Hartmann
Jan Kundrát wrote: > IMHO GDP members develop documentation :-). Just let's call them all > "developers"... and the forums monkeys develop solutions for the users.. develop faqs.. develop a community.. But I'm fine with the staff thingy. Please reread the GLEP and have a look at the changes we ma

Re: [gentoo-dev] Brainless keywording (this time: dev-dotnet)

2005-06-28 Thread Fernando J. Pereda
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 06:34:11PM -0300, Gustavo Zacarias wrote: > > When will this end? > DON'T KEYWORD STUFF YOU DON'T TEST ON ARCHES, SPECIALLY STUFF THAT WON'T > WORK UNTIL PORTING IS DONE. > I mean, c'mon, it's easy enough... just go to that little Mono page > (http://www.mono-project.com/Ma

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread John Mylchreest
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 17:49 -0400, Olivier Crete wrote: > On Tue, 2005-28-06 at 07:20 -0400, Jon Portnoy wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:57:46PM +0200, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > > > On 6/28/05, Shyam Mani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Does it really matter you if we are called deve

[gentoo-dev] Initiation rites: sys-auth

2005-06-28 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Ok as I was waiting for Azarah approval after Robbat's one here we are: [23:49] az, it was kito :P i'm just waiting for your opinion about sys-auth [23:50] i cant see that anybody ever waited for my approval to do anything, but since it makes you feel all tingly and good inside, it sounds ok,

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Jan Kundrát
Olivier Crete wrote: >>Yes. You don't develop anything > > > Neither do infra devs or doc devs... IMHO GDP members develop documentation :-). Just let's call them all "developers"... -jkt -- cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Olivier Crete
On Tue, 2005-28-06 at 07:20 -0400, Jon Portnoy wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:57:46PM +0200, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > > On 6/28/05, Shyam Mani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The only difference I see b/w "Staff" and "Developers" is that you might > > > not have access to CVS. You'll have a

[gentoo-dev] Brainless keywording (this time: dev-dotnet)

2005-06-28 Thread Gustavo Zacarias
When will this end? DON'T KEYWORD STUFF YOU DON'T TEST ON ARCHES, SPECIALLY STUFF THAT WON'T WORK UNTIL PORTING IS DONE. I mean, c'mon, it's easy enough... just go to that little Mono page (http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page) and check the arch status... it's not hard... just a simple link. (FY

[gentoo-dev] GLEP 38 round two

2005-06-28 Thread Tom Knight
Hi, After the discussion today about the forums GLEP [1], we've made some changes: All the current global moderators and admins who aren't already developers/staff will take the staff quiz. Old moderators (those with Bodhisattva status) will be considered in the same way that retired devs are an

[gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Duncan
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Tue, 28 Jun 2005 12:55:35 +0200: > And until you don't figure on roll-call after taking a quiz, you can't > be considered "Official Staff/Developers", so you can't just say "we're > official", also ATs getting developers mus

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Haas Wernfried
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 10:34:35AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > Honestly, we call everyone with an @gentoo.org address a developer, > whether they are a "developer" (CVS access) or not. There have been heavy objections against that when we presented the first draft of the glep using the term d

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Ioannis Aslanidis
First, that thread is old. Second, the issue was addressed. Third, personal opinions on anything do not have anything to do with this. Freedom of speech has always been guaranteed on the forums as far as there are no personal agressions. What brings me to the point that your statement falls really

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Ricardo Loureiro
Hi again, On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:47:42 +0100 twofourtysix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 28/06/05, Ricardo Loureiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also, I truly doubt that any moderator would refuse to be > > considered a Gentoo staff or anything gentoo related, otherwise > > why choose to give

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread twofourtysix
On 28/06/05, Ricardo Loureiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, I truly doubt that any moderator would refuse to be considered > a Gentoo staff or anything gentoo related, otherwise why choose to > give their free time to the forums? Would the likes of [1] be considered acceptable from a Gentoo s

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Ricardo Loureiro
Hi all, All forum moderators and admins try to make the forum clean and after that they try to help the best they can, as all other users. So the moderators/admins do not need to know how Gentoo itself works internally, they just need to be mature and responsible. Now I agree that regular users

[gentoo-dev] IMPORTANT: Server outages

2005-06-28 Thread Lance Albertson
Hey all, Was just going to inform you all of some downtime going to happen tonight around 0900UTC. The facility at the Open Source Labs is needing to do some UPS upgrades on all the rackmounted servers they host. This means the power will need to be off (which will include the switches for the non

Re: [gentoo-dev] ATI Radeon Xpress 200 Drivers

2005-06-28 Thread Chris Frederick
Luca Barbato wrote: Chris Frederick wrote: I'd be happy to help test. Is there any testing methodology that I should follow? Or any specific application I should test, or xorg config settings I should try? Just unmask and emerge the .13.4 driver as usual and use it as a standard ati-drive

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Ioannis Aslanidis
On 6/28/05, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... Erm... either your emails came late or you didn't read my last email. The horse is dead, stop beating it. Ioannis wrote: >* >My most sincere excuses if I trolled or annoyed anyone. It was not >intentional. >* -- Ioannis Aslan

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 12:57 +0200, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > Maybe just that Developer sounds prettier than Staff. The rest is > exactly as you stated. Now let me ask developers this: > > Does it really matter you if we are called developers instead of staff? Honestly, we call everyone with an @

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 12:35 +0200, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > > Can anybody explain me the difference between them ? > > Well, you better discuss that with your fellow developers. It was they > who didn't want us to become developers and gave us the title of staff > instead. You really don't give

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 12:19 +0200, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > > I still don't see *WHY* you should be different from us. If you want to > > manage your recruits then they can't be gentoo staff. > > One reason could be that we are _not_ going to be called developers but staff. Like our infrastruct

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 12:04 +0200, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > > Is it really so annoying to do one simple quiz? > > I do not care of doing it. But I feel it's my duty to defend the > interests of all the moderation team. And no, it's _not_ annoying to > *do* the quiz, the annoying thing is to forc

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 11:53 +0200, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > And some of us were already doing stuff for Gentoo much before the > quizes became mandatory, so it would be fair that all of us that were > mods/admins before that date would be treated *that* way. You were never staff before. I contr

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 08:44 +0200, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > About the language: all global mods do speak (write) English fluently. > That is too obvious. Global Mods and Admins can take the quiz in > English with no problem. The problem comes with our fellow > International Forum Mods, who do not

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Anders Hellgren
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: On Tuesday 28 June 2005 13:29, Anders Hellgren wrote: Now, some people seem to have a problem with someone being global moderator or admin without being official staff. No that's not the issue. The issue is that if you want that global mod

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Ioannis Aslanidis
On 6/28/05, Allen Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please try to refrain from posting any more stupid flames to what is > > supposed to be a productive development list. This is not USENET. > If this is a development list, why exactly are we having discussion > about the forums in the first pl

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread christian . hartmann
> If this is a development list, why exactly are we having discussion > about the forums in the first place? "The author of the GLEP is then responsible for posting the GLEP to the gentoo-dev mailing list and to the Gentoo Linux forums [7], and marshaling community support for it." http://www.

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Allen Parker
On 6/28/05, Jon Portnoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:21:12AM -0800, Allen Parker wrote: > I think before posting you should perhaps take a step back and think: > "Am I making myself look like a bigger asshat than the other guy?" I knew I was making myself look like an ass

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 13:29, Anders Hellgren wrote: > > Most of them already took it > ...or are pre quiz staff. Ok I was intending both of the cases but that's more clear. > Again, noone's ever intended that anyone should become official Gentoo > staff without taking the staff quiz. > Now, som

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Ioannis Aslanidis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was poked about this. OK, looks like many developers didn't like what I've post in here plus I was somewhat recriminated. * My most sincere excuses if I trolled or annoyed anyone. It was not intentional. * About "From: Allen Parker <[EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Jon Portnoy
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:21:12AM -0800, Allen Parker wrote: > On 6/28/05, Ioannis Aslanidis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sorry for that, just tried to keep the discussion alive. I assume all > > > It's alive enough without your constant/irrelevant bitching. You're a > forum moderator which

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Anders Hellgren
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: On Tuesday 28 June 2005 12:37, Anders Hellgren wrote: Let's see, all admins and global mods are in the Global Moderators group. To the best of my knowledge the staus is the following. If those are all, then the problem doesn't seems to exis

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 13:19, Jon Portnoy wrote: > Why does it matter? Should this policy also apply to 'unofficial' bug > wranglers who did not take the staff quiz, or is Bugzilla not an > official part of Gentoo? They have limited privileges, they shouldn't touch out of their competence, so the

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Allen Parker
On 6/28/05, Ioannis Aslanidis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for that, just tried to keep the discussion alive. I assume all It's alive enough without your constant/irrelevant bitching. You're a forum moderator which = staff, not developer. If you think that you're making an argument that ac

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Jon Portnoy
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 01:01:57PM +0200, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > On 6/28/05, Jon Portnoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Developers have CVS access; take the ebuild quiz and you're a developer, > > take the staff quiz (the eight-question quiz some mods apparently don't > > like for whatever biza

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Jon Portnoy
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:57:46PM +0200, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > On 6/28/05, Shyam Mani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The only difference I see b/w "Staff" and "Developers" is that you might > > not have access to CVS. You'll have an email ID and an account on > > dev.g.o, just like the rest o

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Jon Portnoy
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 01:00:21PM +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Tuesday 28 June 2005 12:48, Jon Portnoy wrote: > > AFAIK they still plan to go through devrel, just add a forums person to > > the recruiters team so existing recruiters aren't flooded with new staff > > all of a sudden

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Shyam Mani
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/28/2005 04:31 PM, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > On 6/28/05, Jon Portnoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Developers have CVS access; take the ebuild quiz and you're a developer, >>take the staff quiz (the eight-question quiz some mods apparently don'

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Fernando J. Pereda
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 01:01:57PM +0200, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > On 6/28/05, Jon Portnoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Developers have CVS access; take the ebuild quiz and you're a developer, > > take the staff quiz (the eight-question quiz some mods apparently don't > > like for whatever biza

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Simon Stelling
Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > Maybe just that Developer sounds prettier than Staff. The rest is > exactly as you stated. Now let me ask developers this: > > Does it really matter you if we are called developers instead of staff? No, why should anybody bother? -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operati

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Marius Mauch
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 12:37:46 +0200 (MEST) Anders Hellgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Currently I'd be interested if there are any solid numbers how many > > global moderators/admins want/don't want to get staff status? > > Let's see, all admins and global mods are in the Global Moderators > g

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Simon Stelling
Anders Hellgren wrote: > BonezTheGoon: Don't know, inactive > phong: Don't know, inactive > pilla: Reluctant, but hasn't said he would refuse. [snip the ones who will take it or where it's not necessary] We're talking about 3 people in the worst case. I don't know how long they have been inactive,

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Jon Portnoy
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 06:48:51AM -0400, Jon Portnoy wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:28:20PM +0200, Fernando J. Pereda wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:19:34PM +0200, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > > > > I still don't see *WHY* you should be different from us. If you want to > > > > manage yo

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Shyam Mani
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/28/2005 04:27 PM, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > Does it really matter you if we are called developers instead of staff? *I* don't have an issue with that. I care more about what I'm able to do for the community rather than bother with what I'm goi

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Ioannis Aslanidis
On 6/28/05, Jon Portnoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Developers have CVS access; take the ebuild quiz and you're a developer, > take the staff quiz (the eight-question quiz some mods apparently don't > like for whatever bizarre reason...) and you're staff Does that mean that we could take the ebui

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 12:57, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > Does it really matter you if we are called developers instead of staff? No, not for me. -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò Gentoo Developer - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ (Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64, Sound, PAM) pgpgb5HEjV29f.pgp

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 12:48, Jon Portnoy wrote: > AFAIK they still plan to go through devrel, just add a forums person to > the recruiters team so existing recruiters aren't flooded with new staff > all of a sudden This is fair and right enough. But to do that, I'm still thinking (like others) t

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Ioannis Aslanidis
On 6/28/05, Shyam Mani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only difference I see b/w "Staff" and "Developers" is that you might > not have access to CVS. You'll have an email ID and an account on > dev.g.o, just like the rest of us (I'm assuming here). So what/where is > the big deal about it? Maybe

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Ioannis Aslanidis
On 6/28/05, Jon Portnoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AFAIK they still plan to go through devrel, just add a forums person to > the recruiters team so existing recruiters aren't flooded with new staff > all of a sudden And we already have a candidate I presume :) -- Ioannis Aslanidis 0xB9B11F4E

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 12:37, Anders Hellgren wrote: > Let's see, all admins and global mods are in the Global Moderators group. > To the best of my knowledge the staus is the following. If those are all, then the problem doesn't seems to exists. Most of them already took it, the others will take

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Jon Portnoy
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:35:11PM +0200, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > On 6/28/05, Fernando J. Pereda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:19:34PM +0200, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > > > > I still don't see *WHY* you should be different from us. If you want to > > > > manage your r

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Shyam Mani
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/28/2005 04:05 PM, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > Well, you better discuss that with your fellow developers. It was they > who didn't want us to become developers and gave us the title of staff > instead. The only difference I see b/w "Staff" and "D

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Jon Portnoy
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:28:20PM +0200, Fernando J. Pereda wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:19:34PM +0200, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > > > I still don't see *WHY* you should be different from us. If you want to > > > manage your recruits then they can't be gentoo staff. > > > > One reason coul

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Shyam Mani
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/28/2005 03:34 PM, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > I do not care of doing it. But I feel it's my duty to defend the > interests of all the moderation team. And no, it's _not_ annoying to > *do* the quiz, the annoying thing is to force someone to do it

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Ioannis Aslanidis
On 6/28/05, Anders Hellgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Deathwing00: /me is getting confused by his replies in this thread, the > main authors of the glep never intended anyone to become Gentoo staff > without taking the staff quiz. Sorry for that, just tried to keep the discussion alive. I assum

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Anders Hellgren
Currently I'd be interested if there are any solid numbers how many global moderators/admins want/don't want to get staff status? Let's see, all admins and global mods are in the Global Moderators group. To the best of my knowledge the staus is the following. Nitro: Not necessary, [1] amne: W

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Ioannis Aslanidis
On 6/28/05, Fernando J. Pereda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:19:34PM +0200, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > > > I still don't see *WHY* you should be different from us. If you want to > > > manage your recruits then they can't be gentoo staff. > > > > One reason could be that w

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Fernando J. Pereda
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:19:34PM +0200, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > > I still don't see *WHY* you should be different from us. If you want to > > manage your recruits then they can't be gentoo staff. > > One reason could be that we are _not_ going to be called developers but staff. Can anybody e

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Ioannis Aslanidis
On 6/28/05, Fernando J. Pereda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:53:17AM +0200, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > > > Nope; if you become staff then devrel/recruiters will be involved. You > > > are no exception to the rule. > > > > Incorrect. As devrel already stated, this won't cha

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Jan Kundrát
Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > On 6/28/05, Jan Kundrát <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>And some of us were already doing stuff for Gentoo much before the >>>quizes became mandatory, so it would be fair that all of us that were >>>mods/admins before that date would be treated *that* way. >> >>Is it rea

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Fernando J. Pereda
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:53:17AM +0200, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > > Nope; if you become staff then devrel/recruiters will be involved. You > > are no exception to the rule. > > Incorrect. As devrel already stated, this won't change ever. We will > be always the ones to do this. I still don't s

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Ioannis Aslanidis
On 6/28/05, Jan Kundrát <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And some of us were already doing stuff for Gentoo much before the > > quizes became mandatory, so it would be fair that all of us that were > > mods/admins before that date would be treated *that* way. > > Is it really so annoying to do one s

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Jan Kundrát
Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > And some of us were already doing stuff for Gentoo much before the > quizes became mandatory, so it would be fair that all of us that were > mods/admins before that date would be treated *that* way. Is it really so annoying to do one simple quiz? Cheers, -jkt -- cd /l

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Ioannis Aslanidis
On 6/28/05, Fernando J. Pereda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In that regard, you do not get to take care of your own things anymore. > > > > We will still recruit new mods/admins and take care of them. We will still > > moderate and administering the board and the software. We will still vote

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Marius Mauch
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 19:09:41 +0200 Haas Wernfried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > With reference to the recent thread about this GLEP's draft [1] > we're resurrecting the discussion and would like keep you updated > on the latest changes: > 1) The term developer has been dropped and replaced by

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Fernando J. Pereda
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 10:39:52AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You want to become official. > > We are official. It's not just the way things should be. Well... you want to become staff. > > In that regard, you do not get to take care of your own things anymore. > > We will still recrui

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Jan Kundrát
Haas Wernfried wrote: >>>There is no way to force it on them and firing them is not an option. >> >>Why not? > > You're not serious, are you? > These people have dedicated a lot of work to the forums and > Gentoo. They are doing a great job. Why fire them? Noone wants to fire them. They want to j

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread christian . hartmann
> You want to become official. We are official. It's not just the way things should be. > In that regard, you do not get to take care of your own things anymore. We will still recruit new mods/admins and take care of them. We will still moderate and administering the board and the software. We

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Michael Tindal
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 08:44 +0200, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > On 6/28/05, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think the current suggestion in the GLEP is the best we can > > > achieve. Old moderators may take the quiz, new moderators must. Given > > > enough time all old moderators