Re: FTP team name

2009-01-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > Le Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:45:40AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : >> I see much more gain in update the description of what does FTP masters >> do ( http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/FTPMaster ) than in renaming the >> team. > > Or better, having a written DPL delegation

Re: FTP team name (was: Ftpteam members)

2009-01-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:45:40AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > > I see much more gain in update the description of what does FTP > masters do ( http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/FTPMaster ) than in renaming > the team. Or better, having a written DPL delegation rather than an oral tradition…

Re: FTP team name (was: Ftpteam members)

2009-01-14 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:45:40AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 07:11:48AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Thoughts? Flames? Knives throwing? > > I agree that the current name is not particularly "telling". Still, > we are all used to some degree of misnomers, wi

Re: FTP team name (was: Ftpteam members)

2009-01-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 07:11:48AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Thoughts? Flames? Knives throwing? I agree that the current name is not particularly "telling". Still, we are all used to some degree of misnomers, with which we can cope well as long as there are good descriptions of their mean

Re: FTP team name

2009-01-14 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 14/01/09 at 09:41 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > I don't see a big gain in renaming the role, besides the work to change > all the places where it's written down. Ok, technically we would be the > "http/rsync/ftp Archive [Master|Assistants]", but then people that get > in contact with us should u

Re: FTP team name

2009-01-14 Thread Joerg Jaspert
> I think that the name of "FTP team" or "ftpmasters" which we often use > is slightly misleading to people we are not aware of each and every > bit of how the project works. > And there are many people who contribute to Debian more occasionnaly > than those "core" folks who know everything about

FTP team name (was: Ftpteam members)

2009-01-13 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joerg Jaspert (jo...@ganneff.de): > Call for help > - > Even with one new member just added and another one possibly following > soon, we can do with more people. The points I listed in [1] basically > still hold true, in case you consider it, but lets put them in here again. :)