Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pruning a thread rule

[Torstein Sunde]

Duncan wrote:

> Shouldn't that be "lead developer"?  I'm fairly new (~ two years) to
> software libre, but have read "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" and some
> of the other essays on the culture of open source.  As I understand
> it,"lead developer" refers to the current application development
> coordinator(while recognizing the input of others), while "maintainer"
> refers to the packager for a specific distribution, [...]

It's a bit funny that you're asking this, because I probably would have 
used a different term than "maintainer" if I hadn't seen it in 
"Homesteading the Noosphere":
  http://catb.org/~esr/writings/homesteading/homesteading/ar01s22.html#rp
which I read a few weeks ago on your recommendation.  ;-)