Ticket #501 (closed Discussion: fixed)
Renaming "Developers" to "Members"
| Reported by: | nicolasschudel | Owned by: | fsck222 |
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| Priority: | 4, low | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Web site | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
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Description
(Moved from an Email discussion)
o What about "Members corner" instead of "developers corner" ? all members are not developers
I checkout other opensource website ( http://www.debian.org/devel/ http://developer.kde.org/ etc....), and it is best practice to use "developers corner"
As you want. My point is to make sure that non-developers members are not confused or irritated and as we clarly divided roles into differents jobs (dev, translator, testers, doc writer...), I found that logical. Note that all the websites you quote are clarly developement-oriented (OK, we can find a i18n page in KDE corner after 2 or 3 clicks)...
I asked the dictionary. Development - to create or produce especially by deliberate effort over time. So that would make me (the graphics guy) a developer as well. However, as you pointed out, the word developer is tightly linked to the notion of programming. So, I agree we need another word. How about this? Contribute - to give or supply in common with others. Thats totally the OS philosophy we want to promote. Ubuntu does it the same way: http://www.ubuntu.com/community Sadly thought we would have to change many more links / titles if we start making that distinction. Should we do it?
See http://www.ubuntu.com/community/processes : they speak about "members". I'll use the "member" word, not contributor as it already has another meaning (see the team page): non-members people that contribute. I agree that the move should be done only if it's not too much work (I can help on it if needed).
