On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:03 AM, drew <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 09:36 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: >> 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. > > Hi Rob, > > One point of clarification. > > Rory talked of Administrators, but did not qualify that. > > Kirano, Ricardo and others are forum level administrators - this means > that they have access to the phpBB Admin Control Panel. They do not have > access to a server level account, they can not change 'the code', what > they can do is alter configuration parameters via the control panel - so > lots of check boxs and drop down lists, they can manage user accounts to > some degree, add individuals to groups and the like. > > Terry and myself (for the first year or so) had one level of access > beyond that, we had actual server level access - this is a role that is > outside of the daily functioning of the forum. So we could perform > upgrades, add modifications that require code changes and such, we could > start/stop services. In this case it was clear from the start that this > would move into the ASF Infra team area of responsibility, that was > never disputed by anyone on our side of things. > > I hope that helps, >
Thanks, that is important clarification. Based on that you can pretty much ignore everything else I've written this morning ;-) -Rob > //drew > >
