Re: GRUB support for RAID

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Wednesday 21 July 2004 15:44, Robert Millan wrote:
> Euh.. wrong word. "committer" would fit better. I never meant to
> imply that I'm in charge for decisions in GRUB... (and I don't really
> want that).

Ah, really? That is unfortunate. I thought you finally decided to be a 
maintainer. I wish you will feel the necessity of the maintainership 
power really soon.

> Sorry but the words "committer" and "maintainer" always meant roughly
> the same to me, so I get confused easily when they mean something
> different, like in GRUB.

In GNU, they are very different. AFAIK, they are very different even in 
FreeBSD and NetBSD.

As far as concerned with GNU, a maintainer is one who is responsible for 
showing GNU policies, such as Free Software, copyright management, etc. 
The maintainer may not be a active developer at all.

In GNU, there is no such term "committer", I think. We use "contributor" 
and "developer".

Okuji