Am Samstag, 20. Dezember 2003 15:05 schrieb Kurt Pfeifle: > Waldo Bastian wrote: > > On Sat December 20 2003 12:36, Philip Rodrigues wrote: > > [....] > > > KDE is a very large project, as a developer it is impossible to be > > subscribed and follow all mailinglists. A janitor can play an important > > role here by shielding developers, bug fixers and artists from a lot of > > the noise on many of the mailinglists and feeding these people the useful > > bits of information. > > I think positions like this would be extremely good and beneficial > for the development of KDE and its apps. > > And Waldo's assessment of the tasks to be covered and the skills > required hits the nail on its head. > > The "white paper" of Carlos was a very good initiative. Let's put > some action behind it. > > Also, it would pay if we were able to have a session/workshop on this > during our 2004 Conference. > > > Another critical success factor might be the name ;-) People might not be > > lining up to become "Janitor" :-) > > "Ombudsman" ?
That's what I'd associate most closely with the position and its tasks. I'm no native speaker of English though. > "Spokesman" ? > > "Liaison Officer" ? Nice title, but with a military ring to it. Now if everyone were trekkie-minded ;-) > "Evangelist" ? I think that doesn't accurately describe the tasks, does it? They're more into propaganda. At least in my company people like that don't have the best name... > "Product Manager" ? > > "Director for QA" ? QA Manager? Christian. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: signature Url : http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-doc-english/attachments/20031220/b5ed4799/attachment.sig
