Stefano Zacchiroli <z...@debian.org> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 07:49:06AM +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote:

>> Our constitution does not talk about project members, and instead uses
>> the word "developer".

> In fact, the Constitution uses interchangeably "member" and "developer".

> (And that is one of the basis for the slow shift towards "member" in
> places like nm.d.o and elsewhere. It is correct to do so, constitution
> wise, and it exerts less communication emphasis on the activity of
> [technical] development.)

We are in the process of discussing a variety of constitutional amendments
to be raised by the tech-ctte that will hopefully end up creating a sort
of bundle of constitutional fixes to vote on.  Perhaps it would be good to
include in that a terminology standardization on member for the places in
the constitution that we refer to voting project members rather than
specifically people who upload software.

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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