Re: metaphors and feminism

2019-03-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2019-03-29 at 08:42 +0100, Stacey Lee wrote: > Hello everybody > I'm an outsider here but I couldn't ignore what is going > on. [...] Shut up Daniel. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Design a system any fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: metaphors and feminism

2019-03-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Sam Hartman writes ("Re: metaphors and feminism"): > I always assumed debian member was a term that included developer and > maintainer. > I'm all for Debian member replacing developer, but if so, I'd like a > term that encompasses maintainer and developer. There are

Re: metaphors and feminism

2019-03-31 Thread Michael Neuffer
On 31.03.19 11:22, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Mike Hommey: > >> That's the primary structural distinction as an effect, but OTOH, the NM >> process is a rather extensive vetting process. > Not all Debian Developers went through the NM process. Account > creation was handled differently in the

Re: metaphors and feminism

2019-03-31 Thread Florian Weimer
* Mike Hommey: > That's the primary structural distinction as an effect, but OTOH, the NM > process is a rather extensive vetting process. Not all Debian Developers went through the NM process. Account creation was handled differently in the beginning. (I wasn't around and don't know the

Re: metaphors and feminism

2019-03-31 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 08:31:48PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > I always assumed debian member was a term that included developer and > maintainer. In the Constitution, "Debian [Project] Member" is used as a synonym of "Debian Developer". Hence it doesn't include Debian Maintainers. We discussed

Re: metaphors and feminism

2019-03-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 10:58 AM Paul Wise wrote: > Personally I think the phrase "Debian Developer" and the abbreviation > DD is a relic of an earlier era when the set of tasks available to > Debian contributors were more technical and less varied. I try to use > "Debian member" in mails since

Re: metaphors and feminism

2019-03-30 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 04:54:04PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Mike Hommey writes: > > On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 10:22:35PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > > >> So, how about: > > >> DM: Debian Members. Full members of the project that can represent > >> themselves as such, vote in elections,

Re: metaphors and feminism

2019-03-30 Thread Sam Hartman
I always assumed debian member was a term that included developer and maintainer. I'm all for Debian member replacing developer, but if so, I'd like a term that encompasses maintainer and developer.

Re: metaphors and feminism

2019-03-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Mike Hommey writes: > On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 10:22:35PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: >> So, how about: >> DM: Debian Members. Full members of the project that can represent >> themselves as such, vote in elections, and have a @debian.org email >> address. (Pretty much what a DD and

Re: metaphors and feminism

2019-03-30 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 10:22:35PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > Hi Ian > > On 2019/03/30 20:46, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Paul Wise writes ("Re: metaphors and feminism"): > >> Personally I think the phrase "Debian Developer" and the abbreviation >

Re: metaphors and feminism

2019-03-30 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Ian On 2019/03/30 20:46, Ian Jackson wrote: > Paul Wise writes ("Re: metaphors and feminism"): >> Personally I think the phrase "Debian Developer" and the abbreviation >> DD is a relic of an earlier era when the set of tasks available to >> Debian

Re: metaphors and feminism

2019-03-30 Thread Judit Foglszinger
> I see other people doing this too.  I like it. > > The problem of course is that the official term is not "member" so > this is unclear and arguably wrong in some sense.  It should be.  I > would second a GR to change it. While I would agree with the phrase "DDs are full Debian members", I

Re: metaphors and feminism

2019-03-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Paul Wise writes ("Re: metaphors and feminism"): > Personally I think the phrase "Debian Developer" and the abbreviation > DD is a relic of an earlier era when the set of tasks available to > Debian contributors were more technical and less varied. As the pe

Re: metaphors and feminism

2019-03-29 Thread Zlatan Todorić
On March 30, 2019 3:58:59 AM GMT+01:00, Paul Wise wrote: >On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 6:19 PM Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > >> We call Debian Developer to the Debian contributors who have Debian >finished the >> New Member process: the process of becoming an official Debian >Developer (DD) [1]. >

Re: metaphors and feminism

2019-03-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 6:19 PM Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > We call Debian Developer to the Debian contributors who have Debian finished > the > New Member process: the process of becoming an official Debian Developer (DD) > [1]. Personally I think the phrase "Debian Developer" and the

Re: metaphors and feminism

2019-03-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 08:42:30AM +0100, Stacey Lee wrote: [SNIP] >If you want to be so picky, there is no way Molly can call herself >a developer. Where is her code? What is the basis for the assumption that a "developer" must show code for his or her work? It is interesting to me

Re: metaphors and feminism

2019-03-29 Thread Laura Arjona Reina
Hello Stacey and debian-project El 29/3/19 a las 8:42, Stacey Lee escribió: Hello everybody [...] You are all men no. and maybe you don't understand empathy so this doesn't make sense to you. [...] When most women in tech quietly work so hard to get respect for our coding, with all

metaphors and feminism

2019-03-29 Thread Stacey Lee
Hello everybody I'm an outsider here but I couldn't ignore what is going on. People are making a huge fuss about the choice of political metaphors and some people seem to be against them and other people said they are only metaphors. I found them really helpful for understanding how some people