Le Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:00:18PM -0400, Asheesh Laroia a écrit : > Hi all Debianites, > > I've been inspired by the "Developer Advisory Team" in another > project [1], and so I want to create a similar team within Debian. > In this email, first I'll summarize what the concept of Developer > Advisory Team is, and second I'll request help. > > The stated goals are: > > * Reach out to new contributors, thank them for their work and get > feedback. > > * Reach out to people who might be ready to apply for upload rights > and help them. > > * Reach out to contributors that went inactive and get feedback from > them and offer help.
Hi Asheesh, When I saw a couple of emails about "Developer Advisory Team" on debian-mentors, I had a hard time figuring out what it was about, and since I had no extra time to find an answer, I concluded that Ubuntu do what it wants... The goals that you list above give me the impression that such a team in Debian would better be named "Greeeting", "Reachout", "Encouragement", etc. Team. Not being a native speaker, "Advisory" for me is has strong connotations, that remind me that much of the music that I listened when I was younger had a "Parental Advisory" sticker on it... Now that I am older, "Advisory" means prestigious scientist that give us their point of view from outside, on how to better steer our research institute. With all the respect I have from my experienced colleagues, I think that it would not fit the Debian way. My fear is that after a few years of drifting and rotation of its members, the "Advisory" team, influenced by its own name, might engage in giving less greetings and more "advices"... In summary, I welcome the goal of increasing new contributions to Debian, but recommend to pick a more casual name for your project. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130730220407.ga18...@falafel.plessy.net