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> On Apr 1, 2015, at 1:47 PM, Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2015-04-01 12:00:53 -0700 (-0700), Maru Newby wrote:
>> Given how important trust and relationships are to the functioning
>> of individual projects, I think we’re past the point where we
>> should allow our tooling to be the limiting factor in how we
>> structure ourselves.
> 
> I'm definitely not suggesting that either, merely pointing out that
> if you have an ACL which, for example, defines the set of people
> able to push a particular button then it's helpful to have a term
> for that set of people. As soon as you start to conflate that
> specific permission with other roles and responsibilities then the
> term for it gets overloaded. To me a "core reviewer" is just that:
> people with accounts in the .*-core Gerrit groups granted the
> ability to push a review button indicating that a proposed change is
> suitable to merge. Whether or not those same people are also
> afforded permissions outside that system is orthogonal.

I find your perspective on the term ‘core reviewer’ to be interesting indeed,
and for me it underscores the need to consider whether using the term
outside of gerrit is justified.


Maru