Re: Renaming "New Maintainer" to "New Developer"?

Wouter Verhelst <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.curiosa
Organization The Debian Project, http://www.debian.org/
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:51:24AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wednesday 11 June 2008 17:12, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > > Since there now is the concept of Debian Maintainers (DM), "New
> > > Maintainer" (NM) should be renamed to "New Developer" [ND?]. This could
> > > prevent confusion about the state of Debian Developers and Debian
> > > Maintainers.
> > And while we're at it, NM are not "new" so maybe PD for "prospective
> > developers" or FD for "future developers". But FD is already front desk.
> 
> Maybe FUD is a better acronym then?

Meaning what, 'Fairly Unready Developer'?

(which sounds like a quite horrible version of newspeak to me, but well)

-- 
<Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes.
  -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.