Maintenance? Re: Proposed changes to Fedora Legacy Project

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 2006-01-19 20:41:20 -0600, David Eisenstein wrote:
> I'm going to step into this discussion with a point that some non-USA
> folks here may not realize.  In my midwestern United States dialect, the
> word "maintenance" generally has connotations that make it rather less
> than glamorous.

Yes, maintenance isn't glamourous, but it's necessary.

> When you hear about "building maintenance," that usually
> means the custodian or janitorial staff for the building or campus.  To
> me, calling our project a "Community Maintenance Project" sort of has the
> connotation of "software janitor project," or "package housekeeper
> project," or "security roto-rooter project."

In a recent survey "are these professions important for Austria?"
cleaning staff was ranked before IT professionals, so maybe the "fedora
janitor project" wouldn't be that bad :-)

	hp

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|_|_) | Sysadmin WSR       | I'd be programming in Java.
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