On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:26:49AM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 04:31:49PM +0530, Manusheel Gupta wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Aleksey Lim <alsr...@member.fsf.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 03:45:58PM +0530, Manusheel Gupta wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Aleksey Lim <alsr...@member.fsf.org>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > >
> > > > > This a request to relaunch Packaging Team by giving it a bit another
> > > > > meaning that it has before.
> > > > >
> > > > > The main idea I see for this new/old team is:
> > > > >
> > > > >    Let people start sugar in any environment they have in most
> > > > >    convenient way.
> > > > >
> > > > > The team will cover not only questions how sugar is packaged for
> > > > > major GNU/Linux distribution but also:
> > > > >
> > > > > * having Bazaar as a central place of all (out of distro) efforts
> > > > > * building packages that are not(yet/well) packaged
> > > > > * support distros that don't have packaged sugar
> > > > > * run daily snapshot of sugar in as many as possible environments
> > > > > * take care of Sugar Platform dependencies (how many, are they 
> > > > > packaged
> > > > >  and make custom build otherwise)
> > > > > * support meta sugar distribution ie just a bunch of repositories of
> > > > >  sugar packages that can be attached to existed system to run sugar
> > > > >
> > > > > BTW, maybe "Packaging" is not appropriate name, any ideas?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Account Services team is the preferred trade name for small size teams
> > > > engaged in support work (answering questions, or communicating with the
> > > > development team, maintaining builds and their timely releases). Some
> > > > companies use "Internal System Architect" nomenclature too. When team
> > > sizes
> > > > grew bigger, this work comes under the umbrella of Members of Technical
> > > > Staff.
> > >
> > > Well, I personally prefer something less official/corporate, e.g., Bazaar
> > > Team :)
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > Bazaar in Hindi refers to market. Suspect that many people would confuse it
> > with the marketing team :-)
> 
> Though "Bazaar" is referring more to "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" in
> FOSS world (afaik) rather to marketing (which sounds, in some meaning, quite
> opposite thing :).
> 
> What about "Sweet Team" then, i.e., "sweet" is an id of packages on
> bazaar.sl.o and "sweets" is the main command-line tool.

Of course it might be something neutral like "Distribution Team".

-- 
Aleksey
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