[Alioth-staff-replacement] The naming of the "Debian" gitlab group

Andrew Shadura andrew at shadura.me
Wed Dec 27 10:31:48 UTC 2017


On 27 December 2017 at 00:37, Jonathan Dowland <jmtd at debian.org> wrote:
> However I've recently been thinking about "package-centric thinking" and
> I believe that it can be a damaging perspective for Debian, which is
> more than just a collection of packages. Gitlab can (and will) be used
> to host repositories of sources other than package sources. Calling this
> group "Debian" is package-centric. I would like to suggest you consider
> renaming it before the service leaves beta. Simply calling it "Packages"
> is one possibility.

Maybe I'm missing something, but Packages sounds very package-centric
to me, while Debian doesn't, as it may imply there may be something
else than packages, but, indeed, anything that's related to Debian and
is in Git.

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrew



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