On 3/6/19 2:39 pm, Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public wrote:
3. I don't like that devs and TUs live aside each other instead of finally realizing themselves as community or group. The TUs are set up as an independent organisation with their own bylaws. Many of those bylaws were implemented to keep independence from the developer team. Saying that, almost all developers have been a Trusted User, and there is a decent overlap currently. I mostly see this as a responsibility divide.
I think the community as itself would work much better if we would have user-access based package repositories and just 'maintainers', instead of this dev/TU split.
I agree that the distinction between [extra] and [community] is rather limited. I think we need a better definition of what [extra] is, and move packages that don't fit that definition out of [extra] and into [community] where both devs and TUs can maintain them. Or even merge those two repos.
As Gaetan already mentioned, the process is clear: somebody suggests a new developer and we discuss until a consensus is reached. Feel free to document that somewhere in our wiki if you think it needs to be documented. If you have specific concerns with that process, feel free to share them. However, I do not think anybody in the dev team ever had any objections against that procedure.
What interests me is why is this whole process not transparent and public? I mean we discuss adding new TUs publicly. Of course this dicussion comes with all its good and bad parts, but atleast it's transparent and people get a reason why they are not elected.
You are very much overthinking what goes on when deciding on a new developer. "Electing" a developer is very different than electing a TU. People given developer positions have probably been around for years and are already doing the job before they get formally offered it. So it is a case of someone saying "this person should be a developer" and the rest going "OK". There is usually no discussion, because the candidate is well known already, and has obviously been doing a good job to even be nominated. Having TU style discussions on the suitability of a candidate makes no sense in that situation. Allan