On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 14:18:13 +0100 MJ Ray wrote: > Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <he@ftwca.de> > > > How about calling it New Developer if that's what it should be? > > > > Why does it need to be changed? People maintain websites, > > translations, documentation, packages - I don't see a reason to > > change the current name. > > It seems to cause confusion with the Maintainer (with a capital > like in NM) control field defined in -policy. If the process > applies to people other than those newly appearing in the > Maintainer field, rename. It seems better to name it after the > target of the process, what they become - a Developer. The Maintainer mentioned in a package control field is a Package Maintainer. I fail to see why details about maintaining _packages_ should make us avoid the same term for other maintainance tasks. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm
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