Better group names

Hi, I think the current team names are a mess, and forcing everyone to use a suffix "-team" isn't helping because everyone is picking inconsistent prefixes instead.

It's better to standardise on a set of prefixes and ditch the suffix completely. Prefixes will look better and be easier to navigate, when lists of group names are sorted.

Glancing through the current list of public groups, I suggest the following prefixes:

• debian-* - for Debian infrastructure and admin stuff
• pkg-* - for group maintenance of related packages
• l10n-* - for localisation efforts

For example:

Old	New
rust-team	pkg-rust
js-team	pkg-js
ocaml-team	pkg-ocaml
pkg-go-team	pkg-go
debian-remote-team	pkg-remote
cmake	pkg-cmake
debian-l10n-pt-team	l10n-pt
chinese-team	l10n-chinese
russian-l10n-team	l10n-russian
qa	debian-qa
debian-irc-team	debian-irc
debian-keyring	debian-keyring
mirror-team	debian-mirror
popularity-contest-team	debian-popcon

Fixing this now would be much less painful than fixing it later, or not fixing it at all.

Since everything is about debian anyway, perhaps the debian-* proposition should be admin-* or something else?

In any case, the idea is sound.

mentioned in merge request gitlab-newuser!1 (closed)

let's keep the discussion on the mailing list for now to avoid splits

https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2018/01/msg00000.html

Wrong place

closed