Re: Removing lead maintainers

From: "David Grant" <david@grant.org.uk> > Richard Heyes wrote: > >>On Fri Feb 27, 2004 at 11:32 AM, Martin Jansen wrote: > >> > >>>On Thu Feb 26, 2004 at 03:3901PM -0500, Daniel Convissor wrote: > >>> > >>>>On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 08:20:13PM +0100, Stig S. Bakken wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>role="emeritus"? > >>>> > >>>>How very professional! I like it. > >>> > >>>ACK. > >> > >>Same here. It has the nice benefit that it doesn't require a policy > >>decision, just an implementation. > > > > > > And a dictionary. > > Phew! Thought it was just me. :P I guess it just shows that some of us have been in the academic world for a while :-) I know for a fact that since this is latin-based, it occurs in most western academic traditions (and is still very actively used, at least in Germany and the US). Of course, Cipri's suggestion of "retired" may be easier to understand for many, but the term "emeritus" brings class with it... And anyway, we're not planning to use it often, are we, guys? ;-) Klaus