Paul Wise writes ("Re: metaphors and feminism"):
> Personally I think the phrase "Debian Developer" and the abbreviation
> DD is a relic of an earlier era when the set of tasks available to
> Debian contributors were more technical and less varied.As the person perhaps most responsible for the choice of the word `Developer' I think your explanation is very ... charitable. It is certainly clear to at least me that it is the wrong word. > I try to use "Debian member" in mails since it is clearer what that > means to a larger set of people and I'd like to see Debian culture > (and perhaps the official documents) move towards that too. I see other people doing this too. I like it. The problem of course is that the official term is not "member" so this is unclear and arguably wrong in some sense. It should be. I would second a GR to change it. There is also a problem with acronyms. Debian Member => "DM" but we already have "Debian Maintainers". I think it would be best to rename Debian Maintainers too. Particularly since you can be a maintainer of a package in Debian without having your key in the Debian Maintainers' keyring, so this term is very confusing. ADM = "Authorised Debian Maintainers" or "Assistant/Associate Debian Members" or something maybe ? Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.
