Subject: Re: accurate information in htdocs/People/core.html
To: None <netbsd-docs@NetBSD.org>
From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-docs
Date: 09/11/2005 15:56:42
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On 2005.09.11 16:32:53 +0200, Klaus Heinz wrote:
| Hi,
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| while updating the German translation of htdocs/People/core.html
| I noticed that the description of the role the "core" group has in the
| greater picture is not accurate anymore.
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| The first sentence
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| If the NetBSD Project were a large company, the NetBSD core group would
| be the technical management.=20
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| may be still valid (what is technical-exec, then?) but the detailed
| description is probably wrong now:
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| No, it's not just dead weight. Rather, members of the core group set the
| direction and goals of the NetBSD Project as a whole, promote people's
| interest in the NetBSD Project and the system it produces, and consider
| the serious architectural questions that need to be addressed if the
| NetBSD Project is going to keep producing a viable system.
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| How about this?
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| Core is a project management committee, tasked with guiding the
| technical direction of NetBSD development. Its members are qualified
| NetBSD developers appointed by the technical-exec executive committee.
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| I am not quite sure :-/ what the actual difference is between core and
| technical-exec. The resolutions of their formation sound quite similar
| to me.
I believe technical-exec is wider and includes 'core' and 'pkgsrc-pmc'. See
http://www.netbsd.org/Foundation/. About the resolutions, they are
similar but different. One can say that core is about NetBSD and
technical-exec is about NetBSD and pkgsrc, I believe.
-- Rui Paulo
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