Hello, On Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
On Thursday 24 June 2010 Pascal Bleser wrote:
Actually, it just highlights again that we need a better word than "member". I think you are both misinterpreting the whole idea because it's called "member", but it isn't "member of openSUSE".
What about calling it "core contributor" instead of "member"? The criteria how to get the status are based on contributions, and the resulting group forms the core of the community.
+1, but "Lizard" has quite some appeal[1] :) (maybe explain that as "core contributor" or something, I'll have to sleep on that) I think, whoever came up with "Member" thought of it in a sense like "[distiguished] Member of {the Board, the Parliament, the Order of the {whatever, SUSE [WL]izards, ...}, ...}", and just misjudged the implications of the broader meanings. So, I'll second a renaming of "Member". -dnh, just my 2¢ [1] how often have you thought of someone being a "wizard" at (in random order): - coding (creative & debugging) - writing [documentation and other stuff] - translating - diagnosing problems, esp. from confused descriptions and painfully extracting useful information from the "applicant" (painful for the extractor, not the applicant, mind you ;) - creating artwork etc. - organizing, managing and/or marketing/selling stuff (or ideas) - digging through unlikely, plain broken and sometimes just weird "build" stuff to find how to wrangle a tarball (or .zip) into a "clean" package, just wrangling with qmake and cmake makes me think autotools is fun ... - cope with even the "stupidest", repeated questions nicely in forums, MLs, IRC channels or wherever without losing temper, I for one can't, but I try ;) - moderating discussions - ... I'd say, a "Lizard" can/should be anyone who's shown "stamina" in contributing. The additional allusion to wizard is usually not out of place in one way or another. -- Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change. -- "Look to Windward", Iain M. Banks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org