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

[Alexander Wirt]

On Tue, 26 Dec 2017, Jonathan Dowland wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Firstly congratulations and thanks for getting salsa.debian.org to the
> beta stage! This is really exciting and the rush of packages that have
> been imported already show just how eager people are to use this
> service.
> 
> I'm writing regarding the naming of the "Debian" group. I think it's
> great that there is such a group; I'm a big believer in collaborative
> maintenance, I used collab-maint for all of my own packages and intend
> to use the Gitlab equivalent in the future.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Thanks again and I'd appreciate your thoughts on this.
To be honest, I don't even want to think about it. It is a name, not more and
not less. We won't go the route at this point and change this, I do really
have better things to do. 

Alex