On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Steve Robbins wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Adam Heath wrote:
>
> > <rant topic="off slightly">
> > Debian is about communication. Email. Irc. Phone. Conferences. Anything.
> > But not blind work. This is a community project, not just a bunch of
> > individuals who happen to all put out software in the same format. If we
> > can't communicate, then I am afraid Debian will suffer.
> >
> > It is unfortunate that Debian is coming to this. There have been several
> > recent issues related to this. The whole -ja issue, the needless emails on a
> > ballooning -private, the FHS issue. All have been needless bickered about,
> > when a little bit of talk before the fact could have saved a lot of headaches.
> > </rant>
>
> Well said!
>
> Now, as a relative newbie to Debian: what is NMU? And is there a listing
> of all these Debian acronyms (RTP, etc)?
NMU = Non-Maintainer Upload. Anytime someone other than the maintainer
uploads a deb.
RTP = Request To Package. Also can use For).
ITP = Intent To Package. Sent to -devel say you are preparing a deb.
DPL = Debian Project Leader. Current Wichert Wakkerma <wakkerma@debian.org>
There are others as well. But that is left up to you as a new developer to
find out(we can't teach you everything).
Adam