Re: [fab] Architecture Policy.

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>]

On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 11:35 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> I have a suggestion, David. Stop referring to our active and appreciated
> volunteers as package monkeys. If you cannot refer to them respectfully
> in public then do not do it at all. 

It's not a term of disrespect. It's a term which I use to refer to
myself as well in certain circumstances.

A package maintainer is able to work on the package, fix bugs,
co-operate and contribute to upstream maintenance.

A package-monkey can just build it and can't really do much else.

I've recently tried to get rid of packages for which I can only be a
package-monkey, and declined to accept new packages on similar grounds.
I see no reason to get worked up about the terminology.

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