On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:14:21 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Monday 2010-06-21 20:07, Jim Henderson wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:34:52 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Plus: If every contributor was a member, what's the point of making "members" a separate class.
That depends largely on how one defines a "contributor".
I don't contribute code, but I do contribute knowledge and system management/moderation on the forums.
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). 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