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If a renaming take place, will there be also a reform of the membership ? And which will come first ?
Perhap's the documentation needs to be updated to match the new definitions we're now using for those titles. But that should only be done if and when there's consensus on what the titles now mean.
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Proposition of changes
Here is a list of words or expressions used in official documentation needing disambiguation
Package maintainer
Someone who maintains a package without being in a keyring.
choice 1 : Package maintainer
- Good idea because
- He maintains a packages without being part of Debian
- Bad idea because
- DM and DD are also Package maintainer
choice 1 : Sponsored maintainer
- Good idea because
- they need a sponsor
- Bad idea because
- ...
Debian Maintainer (DM)
could be renamed
choice 1 : Debian Maintainer
- Good idea because
- a DM is a Package Maintainer within the Debian project
- they are non-voting member : a DD advocate them, they are identified ...
- Wait for a general restructuring of all the membership stuff
- a DD can't say he is the Debian maintainer for package X
- Bad idea because
- it needs disambiguation
- a DM is not really within the Debian project (less than alioth-guest)
- can have no intention to be the maintainer of a package
- You can officially maintain a package without being a DM or a DD
choice 2 : Debian Uploader
- Good idea because
- They have upload rights
- It will be closer to the actual capabilities provided by that status
- ...
- Bad idea because
- They can't upload arbitrary packages
- Debian Developer can upload
- ...
choice 3 : Debian Contributor
- Good idea because
- allow more people to be part of the project (if also for translators, art people, etc, etc) see [2]
- one distinction : the voting right
- member = someone with voting rights
- contributor = someone without voting rights.
- not all Debian Maintainers are maintainers
- Contributor could ask for upload rights
- Bad idea because
- isn't sufficiently clear about what abilities can be granted
- Could be used for something else
- what about translators, art people, etc, etc
Debian Member
choice 1 : Debian Member
- Good idea because
- ...
- Bad idea because
- ...
choice 2 : Debian Developper
- Good idea because
- ...
- Bad idea because
- ...
Debian developer (DD)
choice 1 : Debian developer
- Good idea because
- ...
- Bad idea because
- ...
New maintainer's process (NM)
choice 1 : New Developer
- Good idea because
- ...
- Bad idea because
- ...
New Debian maintainer
- (at the end of NM)
choice 1 : New Debian Developer
Debian New Maintainers' Guide
NM frontdesk
NM committee
Documentation needing update
- Debian Policy
- Debian Developer's Reference
- Debian New Maintainers' Guide
- www.debian.org
process needing update
- Debian New Maintainer
- Debian Maintainer