On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: > It might be hard, impossible and undesirable to reverse the decision to > use the term. Exactly.
> I think the term can be correctly understood if you > present it as I have in some recent postings to this list: > > Debian is the super-project. > XYZ is a Debian subproject > that produces a Custom Debian Distribution > with the flavors A, B and C. > > A subproject is easily understood: it's an organisational structure. > Basically, it's a group of people working on a subset of Debian. They > coordinate via a web site and in some cases have a special mailing list. > > Some subprojects create Custom Debian Distributions for their particular > area of interest. Upon installation of the Custom Debian Distribution, > you can select between a number of flavors that set some defaults to > suit a particular use. Thanks for this clarifying words. > More ideas? Perhaps some of this could be intergrated into the Debian > Subproject Howto as soon as some degree of consensus has been reached. > (I can't find it right now with people.d.o being inaccessible.) You might try apt-get {source,install} subproject-howto Kind regards Andreas.