Re: Third call for votes for the debian project leader election 2006
On 2006/04/05, at 21:53, Frans Pop wrote:
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 14:27, JC Helary wrote:
Besides, the systematic use of "developer" is also confusing and to
clarify things should be replaced my "member" as is also hinted in
the same document.
You cannot change the word "developer" to "member" without changing
the
Debian Constitution [1] ...
[1] http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution
Well then there is a problem since the glossary in:
http://www.debian.org/devel/join/newmaint#Member
says:
Member, Developer:
A Debian Project member, who has gone through the New Maintainer
process and had their application accepted.
So obviously, members are developers and developers are members.
Also in the constitution there is clear reference to
developers=project members in 5.1.2
2. Lend authority to other Developers.
The Project Leader may make statements of support for points of
view or for other members of the project, when asked or otherwise;
Problem is, the systematic use of "developer" supports an exclusive
maintainer->developer->voter frame of mind when the use of
contributor->member->voter would have a totally different impact.
Obviously it is not a procedural modification that is at stake here,
but a linguistic one (and we are back on topic).
The constitution does not need to be changed since it already
acknowledge implicitly that project member and developer are
equivalent terms.
What needs to be modified is the "Debian New Maintainers' Corner", to
provide an unambiguous wording as to what kind of contribution and
what kind of process are required by a contributor to apply for
project membership.
Jean-Christophe Helary
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