Re: Formalizing teams

[Jonathan McHugh]

December 23, 2021 4:13 PM, "Blake Shaw" <blake@nonconstructivism.com> wrote:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> 
>> One idea that I like is to bring structure to the group, or rather to
>> make structure visible, so that newcomers know who they can talk to to
>> get started on a topic, know who to ping for reviews, and so that each
>> one of us can see where they fit. Rust has well-defined teams:
>> 
>> https://www.rust-lang.org/governance
> 
> Definitely! Perhaps this an aesthetic matter, but keeping-with the
> community spirit of Guix, and the existing nomenclature where the
> 'core' maintainers are called a "collective", perhaps we should avoid
> some of the more corporate "team" language of Rust/Mozilla and stick to
> "collectives"?
> 

I reckon 'coterie' is more elegant a term:
```
: an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common 
interest or purpose
```


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