On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:42:37AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > I'm of the opinion that adding more acronyms or changing existing ones > just makes things more confusing. Even though I'd love to side with zack here -- we need changes here better sooner than later -- but I think Paul's right. This change would rather confuse than clear things up. > We should either change nothing or drop all acronyms and be more > descriptive in what we mean. Or come up with a better acronym scheme. :) > Just use "contributor" or "member" where that would suffice and prefix > different words depending on what kind of contributor/member. I think that, altough our Debian specifix acronym world is kind of fun, we need to focus on the actual problem first and that it to define and name the "roles" we have. Let's not forget that DM is just as confusing as the other abbreviations since you don't need to be a DM to be an M in D. I'd like to rather go for a general clean-up of this, define, name, and explain the different roles. And if we can have acronyms for all or some of them then, it's fine. If not, then just not. I'm afraid, this needs way more work and possibly a big discussion, maybe even a vote. I don't know. Hauke -- .''`. Jan Hauke Rahm <jhr@debian.org> www.jhr-online.de : :' : Debian Developer www.debian.org `. `'` Member of the Linux Foundation www.linux.com `- Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe www.fsfe.org
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