In general I like this proposal. I would state though I don't see a need to differentiate between a contributor and reviewer. I would like to see more people spending time reviewing incoming code.
donald On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Lou Berger <lber...@labn.net> wrote: > > Hi Donald, (and anyone else who may have an opinion) > > I'm not really sure who to direct this question, but you're mail > prompted me to send this message - so it's going to you. My question is? > > On 3/10/2016 10:46 AM, Donald Sharp wrote: > > Call for more gatekeepers > > What is a gatekeeper and where are Quagga project roles defined? > > From my vantage points I see that there are: > > Users: > Folks who use quagga, and may also fill other project roles. Users > also report issues they may find and provide feedback on planned changes. > > Contributors: > Folks like me/LabN which (occasionally) write code that is > submitted back to the project. I'm including both folks that fix bugs > and author new code in this category. Some may subdivide this category, > but I haven't for simplicity sake. > > Reviewers: > Folks that review submitted code and provide feedback. I'm also > including folks that test contributions and candidate releases. (I/LabN > have also done some of this.) > > Maintainers: > Those who help Contributors get their submissions into a branch & > mainline and shepherd a release. These folks are able to devote > substantial time to the project either through apparent direct financial > support for their activity or otherwise make their time available. > > Advisors: > The 'grey beards' who have long(er) term perspective on the project. > > I can see where I and others on quagga-dev fit into this breakdown, but > don't really see this type of breakdown documented anywhere and the > recent discussion on this topic have (frankly) been a bit confusing to me. > > Thanks, > Lou > > PS I'm hoping for a simple answer, but suspect there isn't one - at > least yet. > > >
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