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Re: Looking for an advocate



On Wednesday 23 February 2005 10.12, Nico Golde wrote:

> yes i know this problem too. at the beginning of my debian
> envolvement i had big problems with it to. i know there are
> many places which explain dam, am etc. but i think it would
> be great to have a list with this acronyms on a special page
> in the new maintainer documentation.
> i would write one other people think the same about this.
> regards nico

I think most of the terms are here:
<http://www.debian.org/devel/join/newmaint.en-gb.html#Glossary>

Perhaps this needs just a direct link from /devel/join/, and some 
tweaking/extending.  To handle the acronym problem, for instance:

Index: newmaint.wml
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/devel/join/newmaint.wml,v
retrieving revision 1.51
diff -u -r1.51 newmaint.wml
--- newmaint.wml        16 Jan 2005 18:59:24 -0000      1.51
+++ newmaint.wml        23 Feb 2005 09:42:23 -0000
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@
     <br>&nbsp;
     </dd>

-  <DT><A name="AppMan">Application Manager</A>:</DT>
+  <DT><A name="AppMan">Application Manager (AM)</A>:</DT>
     <DD>A Debian developer who is assigned to an Applicant in order to
         monitor their progress through the application process.
         <br>
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@

     </dd>

-  <DT><A name="DAM">Debian Account Managers</A>: <email da-manager@debian.org></DT>
+  <DT><A name="DAM">Debian Account Managers (DAM)</A>: <email da-manager@debian.org></DT>
     <DD>These are the people who manage user accounts on Debian machines,
         and finalize the details of membership by assigning accounts to new
         developers. They are delegates appointed by the Debian Project


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