On 25.09.2015 08:57, Pierre Smits wrote: > Hi All, > > At http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#roles we have > descriptions for the user and the developer roles. But the descriptions are > overlapping.
So what exactly is wrong with the fact that the roles overlap? -- Brane > For *user* we have: > > A *user* is someone that uses our software. They contribute to the Apache > projects by providing feedback to developers in the form of bug reports and > feature suggestions. Users participate in the Apache community by helping > other users on mailing lists and user support forums. > > And for *developer* we have: > > > A *developer* is a user who contributes to a project in the form of code or > documentation. They take extra steps to participate in a project, are > active on the developer mailing list, participate in discussions, provide > patches, documentation, suggestions, and criticism. Developers are also > known as *contributors* . > > > Better would be to change the *user* definition to: > > A user is a person or organisation experiencing a benefit from > the contributions made to the ASF in general or a project in particular. > > And the *developer* definition should be removed and replaced with a > *contributor* definition: > > A contributor is a person who contributes to a project of the ASF and > therefore to the ASF. Contributions are (but not limited to) participations > in mailing lists, conferences, providing improvements to code, > documentation, supplying suggestions and criticism to further the project > in particular and the ASF in general. > > Recognised contributors are contributors who have also a signed Contributor > License Agreement (CLA) <http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas> on file. > > > Both new descriptions remove the ambiguity regarding using and contributing > from the old descriptions, and the new one for contributor feeds into the > diversity aspect. > > What do you think? > > Best regards, > > > Pierre Smits > > *OFBiz Extensions Marketplace* > http://oem.ofbizci.net >
