On 07/05/2010 11:12 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Christoph Berg <m...@debian.org> writes: >> Re: Steve Langasek 2010-07-05 <20100705164805.ga26...@dario.dodds.net> > >>> I haven't seen anyone propose a good name that it can be changed *to*. >>> Shouldn't that be the first step? > >> It would probably be "New Developer". But before everyone rushes to >> update lots of documents, let's try to implement some of the changes >> to membership like "Debian Contributor". I'm sure along that route lie >> more naming updates that would make work done now redundant. > > And in the process, PLEASE rename Debian Maintainer to something that > isn't completely confusing given the existence of a Maintainer field in
Unfortunately I fear it might be a bit late for that as DM is used at an insane *lot* of places now (keyring, dak, bdo, ...) > all of our packages and all the other uses of "maintainer" in Debian that > pre-existed the Debian Maintainer system and mean something else entirely. > > I'm happy to propose a GR to do that (and also make it clear that such > details can be changed going forward without a GR) if that will help. Better to do that with a general restructuring of all the membership stuff instead of starting over and over again. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c325ad0....@debian.org
