Debian Dictionary and List of Acronyms
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- V.E.R.A - Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms
- FOLDOC - Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing
- Jargon - The New Hacker's Dictionary
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[A]
- Advocate
An existing Debian developer who recommends an Applicant. An Applicant can only go through the NM process after an Advocate has agreed with their application. The Sponsor of an Applicant often acts as their Advocate once they are satisfied with the Applicant's skills.
- AM
- API
Application programming Interface
- Applicant
A person requesting membership in the Debian Project; prospective Debian developer.
- Application Manager
A Debian developer who is assigned to an Applicant in order to monitor their progress through the application process. The number of Application Managers isn't fixed. See the list of current Application Managers. One person can be the application manager for several applicants.
[B]
- BOD
Board of Directors
- BTS
Bug Tracking System
[C]
- CVS
Concurrent Versioning System
[D]
- DAD
Debian Acronym Dictionary
- DAM
- DD
see Debian Developer
- DDP
Debian Documentation Project
- DDR
Debian Developers Reference
- DDTC
Debian Description Translation Client
- DDTP
Debian Description Translation Project
- DDTS
Debian Description Translation Server
- Debian Account Manager
<da-manager@debian.org> These are the people who manage user accounts on Debian machines, and finalize the details of membership by assigning accounts to new developers. They are delegates appointed by the Debian Project Leader, as described in the Debian Constitution, and have the exclusive power to create and remove accounts.
- Debian Developer
A Debian Project member, who has gone through the New Maintainer process and had their application accepted.
- Debian Project
An organization of free software developers spread around the world with a common goal, to produce a completely free operating system. See http://www.debian.org for more information.
- Debian-Women
The Debian-Women project was founded in june 2004 to encourage more women to use Debian and to join the Debian project. The project is supported by men and women. The hompage of the projekt is at http://women.alioth.debian.org.
- Developer
see Debian Developer
- DFSG
Debian Free Software Guidelines
- DMUP
Debian Machine Use Policies
- DPL
Debian Project Leader
- DSA
Debian Security Advisory, Debian System Administration
- DWARF
Debian-Women Acronym Reference File
- DWN
Debian Weekly News
[E]
[F]
- FHS
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
- Front Desk
<new-maintainer@debian.org> The Front Desk officers receive new application requests and pass them to appropriate Application Managers. This is "the contact of last resort" when other committee contacts fail to respond.
- FTBFS
Failure To Build From Source
[G]
- General Resolution
When making a General Resolution the Developers follow the standard Resolution Procedure and vote. See Debian Debian Constitution about the Satandard Resolution Procedure.
- GR
- GUI
Graphical User Interface
[H]
[I]
- IANADD
I Am Not A Debian Developer
- ITA
Intent To Adopt
- ITO
Intent To Orphan
- ITP
Intent To Package
[J]
[K]
- KCD
- Kernel Cousin Debian
Kernel Cousins are an attempt to extend kerneltraffic news service to other Open Source projects. Kernel Cousins provide detailed summaries of mailings lists traffic. Kernel Cousin Debian was first published in september 2000 and provided summaries of the debian-devel mailing list.
[L]
[M]
- Member
see Debian Developer
- MIA
Missing in Action
[N]
- NM
New Maintainer
- NM-Committee
<debian-newmaint@lists.debian.org> The NM-Committee is a body of people who control the New Maintainer process. It is composed of the Front Desk, the active Application Managers, and the Debian Account Manager.
- NMU
Non-Maintainer Upload
[O]
- O
Orphaned
- OS
Operating System
[P]
- P&P
Philosophy and Procedures
- PTS
Package Tracking System
[Q]
- QA
Quality Assurance
- QoT
Quality of Translation
[R]
- RC
Release Candidate, also: Release Critical
- RFA
Request For Adoption
- RFB
Request For Boot
- RFH
Request for Help
- RFP
Request For Package
- RFS
Request For Sponsorship
[S]
- SPI
Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
- Sponsor
A sponsor is an existing Debian Developer (see Member) who acts as the mentor of an Applicant: they check packages done by the applicant and help them improve the packaging. When the sponsor is satisfied with the package, they upload it on behalf of the applicant to the Debian archive. The Applicant is recorded as the maintainer of such a package, despite the fact applicants aren't allowed to upload packages themselves. Applicants can find a sponsor by sending an email to <debian-mentors@lists.debian.org> describing their package and asking for a sponsor. Developers can find more information on how to be a sponsor in the Developer's Reference.
[T]
- Traduction a faire
Work to be done, but no-one volunteered yet
- transitional package
Transitional packages are not normal packages. They are only installed to make upgrading to new versions of packages trouble-free. Well known examples are change from libc5 to libc6 and changing to new versions of Perl. Transitional packages may be removed after the upgrade has completed.
- T&S
Tasks and Skills
[U]
[V]
[W]
- WNPP
Work Needing and Prospective Packages
