Bug 234705 - Document of being an active developer
Bug#: 234705 Product:  Gentoo Linux Version: unspecified Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux Status: RESOLVED Severity: normal Priority: P2
Resolution: FIXED Assigned To: araujo@gentoo.org Reported By: dberkholz@gentoo.org
Component: Unspecified
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Summary: Document of being an active developer
Keywords:  
Status Whiteboard: 
Opened: 2008-08-14 08:48 0000
Description:   Opened: 2008-08-14 08:48 0000 
Preparation: araujo needs to post progress, an updated certificate and any new
requests to the gentoo-council or gentoo-project list 4+ hours before the
meeting.

Goal: Suggest changes. This should happen on-list. No discussion expected.

------- Comment #1 From Doug Goldstein 2008-10-21 20:06:44 0000 ------- 
araujo: Any word on this?

------- Comment #2 From Luis F. Araujo 2008-10-22 21:18:45 0000 ------- 
I have an initial draft at d.g.o/~araujo/gcert1.pdf developed using scribus,
among the next changes and decisions to take:

 1- To add the developer date.
 2- Decide who and how the certificate will be signed (electronically or
manually).
 3- How this certificate will be generated. For this, a simple script hosted in
infra would make it.
 4- Some people proposed some kind of digital signature ... not sure if/how
much this is worthy.

And last but not less important, that the community like the cert design ...

I guess I can just go straight and work in point 1 and 3 ... and the rest is up
to the council and majority.

Regards,

------- Comment #3 From Donnie Berkholz 2008-10-23 20:28:07 0000 ------- 
Next steps:

- Luis, finish the prototype
- Devrel and trustees should figure out how to deal with his open questions 2
and 4 below. One of these two groups should do the signing.

Council has no relevance to this request so we're moving off it. Trustees is on
it because the question was raised of whether this certification requires some
sort of legal status.

------- Comment #4 From Roy Bamford 2009-01-31 17:19:21 0000 ------- 
At the January 11 2009 trustee meeting
http://www.gentoo.org/foundation/en/minutes/2009/11Jan2009_trustees_meeting_log.txt
   the trustees determined that the certificate could be printed, signed by a
trustee (in ink) and mailed (email and/or snail mail) to a developer on
request.

However, the draft at d.g.o/~araujo/gcert1.pdf needs to be maintainable the
present pdf sample has 2008 on it.

------- Comment #5 From Luis F. Araujo 2009-02-22 20:28:55 0000 ------- 
Excellent decision in my opinion.

I just uploaded an updated version at d.g.o/~araujo/certificate/ , along with
the scribus sources.

What have you decided about the way to generate such a document?

Regards,

------- Comment #6 From Roy Bamford 2009-05-17 20:06:29 0000 ------- 
Developers should apply to the Foundation at trustees at gentoo dot org for a
signed certificate.

Certificates will be signed in ink and scanned or posted to applicants (or both
if needed)

NeddySeagoon will sign for applicants from Europe
Quantumsummers will sign for applications from the USA.