On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 05:24:26PM +0900, JC Helary wrote: > >Disadvantage, because the change will not be so evident from the > >outside (more of a publicity issue, but that is what a part of the > >problem is, so we need to change the image that DD=package maintainer)
> No because, as you'll see in my edits to cobako's proposal, the aim > is to have people think in terms of "membership" and not in terms of > "developership". Which will obviously make it easier for long term > non-maintainer contributors to understand that they are also welcome. > All this is really a perception problem. I think the name "member" is worse than "developer" *because* it places the emphasis on membership (belonging) instead of on developership (doing the work). We have no shortage of folks already who "belong" without contributing much to the project, I don't think this is the model we want to emphasize. (We also have plenty of people who contribute heavily to the project without being recognized as members; but I think that "member" is a lesser title that doesn't do justice to their contributions -- I want to see these people recognized as *developers*, not just as members.) And maybe I'm too heavily steeped in Debian culture to take an objective view, but I don't see any reason why translators, documentation writers, artists, et al. should look at the term "developer" and conclude it's not for them. Developing an operating system is what we *all* do; not just packagers or maintainers, but also documentation writers, bug submitters, buildd maintainers, QA folks, translators, and everyone else. The term isn't "software developer" or "programmer", it's simply "developer", which I think encapsulates the concept of what Debian is, and I wouldn't like to lose that. I'd rather see us do a better job of communicating this principle to prospective developers instead. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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