On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 02:57:12PM +0200, Ludovico Cavedon wrote: > On 07/02/2010 11:14 PM, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > >Am I the only one who has trouble -and getting laughed at- whenever I > >try to explain these to potential contributors? > > > >Can we _at least_ rename the NM process to be indicative of what it is? > > It also took me some time to figure out correct meaning of the > terminology. In particular the fact the fact that the "New > Maintainer" process is *not* the process that leads you to become a > "Debian Maintainer".
What is even more confusing is that we have a document called "New Maintainer's guide" [1] that is not meant to be a guide for new Debian Maintainers or people in the New Maintainers (NM) process, but for new Package Maintainers. [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ In my opinion there should be a clear distinction between - Package maintainers - Debian maintainers (DM) - Debian developers (DD) including related processes and documents ... I don't know if anyone is aware of each occurence of the different names in documents, official Debian web pages and other media. Regards Jan -- Jan Dittberner - Debian Developer GPG-key: 4096R/558FB8DD 2009-05-10 B2FF 1D95 CE8F 7A22 DF4C F09B A73E 0055 558F B8DD http://ddportfolio.debian.net/ - http://people.debian.org/~jandd/
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
