On Tue Jul 06 12:56, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 06 July 2010, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > > DMs and DDs are maintainers and in some cases, DMs are also uploaders. > > "Debian Contributor" seems nice enough, as Christoph Berg already > > suggested. > > So where would that leave translators, art people, etc, etc. Aren't they > "contributing" to? "Contributors" is just as generic, vague and problematic > as "maintainers". > > Seems to me we've already had this discussion with exactly the same > alternatives a few years back. > Why do they need to have different names? Why don't we just have "contributors", "contributors who can upload" etc? Well, I can see it's sensible to have at least one distinction (contributor vs member - ie voting rights), but I really don't think all of these things should be distinct. People should become contributors. Contributors can ask for upload rights => get the permissions that DM have now. Matt
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