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Re: Renaming "New Maintainer" to "New Developer"?



On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:51:24AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wednesday 11 June 2008 17:12, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > > Since there now is the concept of Debian Maintainers (DM), "New
> > > Maintainer" (NM) should be renamed to "New Developer" [ND?]. This could
> > > prevent confusion about the state of Debian Developers and Debian
> > > Maintainers.
> > And while we're at it, NM are not "new" so maybe PD for "prospective
> > developers" or FD for "future developers". But FD is already front desk.
> 
> Maybe FUD is a better acronym then?

Meaning what, 'Fairly Unready Developer'?

(which sounds like a quite horrible version of newspeak to me, but well)

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