On 18/07/2008, at 10:51 AM, Alan Burlison wrote: > Glynn Foster wrote: > >> As I said on Jim's blog, I like this a lot more than some of the >> others. >> As I see it, we have a couple of formal roles within our community >> (which I've grouped accordingly) - >> - Contributor >> - Leader >> - Member >> - OGB >> A Contributor is *everyone* in the context of opensolaris.org. No >> one would be involved or reading lists if they weren't interested, >> and contributing to the success of the community. >> Leader are those people with a stronger position in the community. >> Leaders in the project sense may be ones making decisions and >> deciding the direction of a project. They have respect from their >> peers that has elevated them into a position of responsibility. >> Only leaders can elevate other people to that position, to share >> in the responsibilities. >> Both of these roles have a set of attributes - >> - can edit web pages >> - can administer mailing lists >> - can commit code > > I think there's probably a need for a step prior to Contributor - > someone is interested but who you aren't ready to give write access > to just yet. Otherwise we have no way of distinguishing between > people who are active on lists etc and people we trust to make > changes to code. To me it would seem to be risky to just give > commit rights to everyone who said they wanted them. I don't know > of any other open source community that gives commit rights to > anyone who just turns up & asks.
They're called a Contributor too, but they have no attributes. They only start building those attributes as their contributions and respect by their peers grow. Glynn
