On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Adam Heath wrote: > <rant topic="off slightly"> > Debian is about communication. Email. Irc. Phone. Conferences. Anything. > But not blind work. This is a community project, not just a bunch of > individuals who happen to all put out software in the same format. If we > can't communicate, then I am afraid Debian will suffer. > > It is unfortunate that Debian is coming to this. There have been several > recent issues related to this. The whole -ja issue, the needless emails on a > ballooning -private, the FHS issue. All have been needless bickered about, > when a little bit of talk before the fact could have saved a lot of headaches. > </rant>
Well said! Now, as a relative newbie to Debian: what is NMU? And is there a listing of all these Debian acronyms (RTP, etc)? Cheers, -S
