GLEP 41 got rejected in it’s current state (CVS revision 1.2). I’m quite happy about that, since it wasn’t just a ‘No, go home’. The council pointed out a few flaws and told us, that if we update it properly, they’ll vote on it again. In contrary to my last blog entry, I’m pretty optimistic, as I see space for improvements again. Also, the meeting was fun, I expected it to be much more formal and boring.
Back to GLEP 41 again. The updates we need are:
* ATs get a user@${notyetknown}.gentoo.org. When they become devs, they’ll just get a forward to the @gentoo.org address, so that shouldn’t be a big issue.
* Longer probation period: The council asked that the probation doesn’t get shortened, i.e. it should be at least 1 month. This is a valid point, and since most of our current ATs already have more than a month, this isn’t a big issue either. Also, a probation period should be introduced before the user gets AT, to see whether they will actually stick around or just go fetch a cool email address and then disappear.
* A clarification on the ‘r/o access to gentoo-x86’ term: ATs shouldn’t need an account on dev.g.o or cvs.g.o
So, we’ll get into round 2 next month.
So long,