On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 09:10:32 -0400 > Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Here are the roles at Apache: >> http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#roles >> >> Do you have a similar list, with definitions, for the forums? >> >> It would be good to understand what you think a "Volunteer" would map >> to in terms of an Apache role. Ditto for Admin and Moderator. > > On my way out the door to a meeting, so o time to read your url at present. > > Volunteers do the daily low level work of answering queires > > Moderators do Volunteer work and handle assessment of doubtful postings, with > deletion and modification powers and banning powers, all which can be subject > to review by the forum personnel > > Admins handle the code. >
So based on your definitions the mapping might be: Volunteer = Apache contributor. This is not a title, no one is voted in or appointed as a contributor. It is just what we call someone who contributes to the project, by submitting a patch, reporting a bug, contributing to an email thread, helping a user on a list, etc. Admins, since they handle code should probably be Committers in the project. But it is also possible for volunteers/contributors with sustain and valued contributions answering questions to be voted in as Committers as well. Moderators -- I could see that mapping to a committer, or just being rights the PMC assigns to a contributor. For example, with mailing lists we do not require that a list moderator be a committer. On the other hand, list moderators cannot ban users, at least not so far as I can tell. But same thing applies here. I'd encourage us to look at sustained contributions from moderators and vote them in, where merited, as committers and PPMC members. -Rob > -- > Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]> >
