On Wednesday 23 February 2005 10.12, Nico Golde wrote: > yes i know this problem too. at the beginning of my debian > envolvement i had big problems with it to. i know there are > many places which explain dam, am etc. but i think it would > be great to have a list with this acronyms on a special page > in the new maintainer documentation. > i would write one other people think the same about this. > regards nico
I think most of the terms are here: <http://www.debian.org/devel/join/newmaint.en-gb.html#Glossary> Perhaps this needs just a direct link from /devel/join/, and some tweaking/extending. To handle the acronym problem, for instance: Index: newmaint.wml =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/devel/join/newmaint.wml,v retrieving revision 1.51 diff -u -r1.51 newmaint.wml --- newmaint.wml 16 Jan 2005 18:59:24 -0000 1.51 +++ newmaint.wml 23 Feb 2005 09:42:23 -0000 @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ <br> </dd> - <DT><A name="AppMan">Application Manager</A>:</DT> + <DT><A name="AppMan">Application Manager (AM)</A>:</DT> <DD>A Debian developer who is assigned to an Applicant in order to monitor their progress through the application process. <br> @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ </dd> - <DT><A name="DAM">Debian Account Managers</A>: <email [EMAIL PROTECTED]></DT> + <DT><A name="DAM">Debian Account Managers (DAM)</A>: <email [EMAIL PROTECTED]></DT> <DD>These are the people who manage user accounts on Debian machines, and finalize the details of membership by assigning accounts to new developers. They are delegates appointed by the Debian Project greetings -- vbi -- Message from Our Sponsor on ttyTV at 13:58 ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
