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? -- # May contain nuts. June too. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org