Re: metaphors and feminism
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.
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