On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:06:40 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Monday 2010-06-21 20:45, Jim Henderson wrote:
Historically, I think "contributor" has had a connotation of "developer", but our membership is made up of more than just coders.
The intended contributor: coders, documenters, designers, that sort of contributors -- literally *creators*. That exempts forum talkers, unless they can match to the creativity requirement.
That does remove a fairly substantial part of the community, then - which is why "member" is an additional distinction, as someone else said (Patrick, I think), a member is an "interested party", which is broader than "contributor" (though I would hope it's inclusive of the contributors).
At first I thought contributors should have a say (rather than Registered Members™).
I'm gonna take that classification for a spin.
Looking at Debian, I am not really interested in that, nor do I consider myself a member of any of its groups, subsequently I am not a DD. Yet, I seem to contribute to it resp. its packages, though I don't think I should be eligible for any decision making such as on the DD level.
What class am I thus in?
That's a good question; contributions can be passive (as yours would be in the Debian community as you describe it above) or active (as yours is in the openSUSE community). Perhaps that's the underlying idea behind having a membership - that declaration of active participation and/or contribution to the project? (I don't know, I wasn't around when the membership idea was created) Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org