On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Chiradeep Vittal <chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com> wrote: > On 12/12/12 6:30 PM, "Chip Childers" <chip.child...@sungard.com> wrote: >>2.1. Users >> >>The most important participants in the project are people who use our >>software. Users contribute to the Apache projects by providing >>feedback to developers in the form of bug reports and feature >>suggestions. As well, users participate in the Apache community by >>helping other users on mailing lists and user support forums. > > There are users of CloudStack-derived products (e.g., users of commercial > distributions). > Their feedback may arrive in the form of feature proposals from product > managers of those > commercial distributions. This is valuable to the project. I feel that > this kind of contribution needs to be welcomed and acknowledged. >
Sebastian and I had discussed removing the "users" role entirely, and recognizing that users are contributors to the project if they interact with this community. I understand your point about users of a downstream project being part of the overall community, but for the purpose of the project's bylaws I believe that they have to interact with this community directly and as individuals to be considered a contributor. Does this make sense to you? >> >>2.2. Contributors >> >>Contributors are all of the volunteers who are contributing time, >>code, documentation, or resources to the CloudStack Project. A >>Contributor that makes sustained, welcome contributions to the project >>may be invited to become a Committer, though the exact timing of such >>invitations depends on many factors. The form of contribution is not >>limited to code. It can also include code review, helping out users on >>the mailing lists, documentation, testing, etc. > > I know Sebastien had a issue with the "etc" as well. Dropping "etc", agreed > Well documented > feature proposals are also contributions. Yes, as are vague suggestions (I'm not being filpant with I say that either). How about including "making feature or improvement suggestions and proposals" to the list.
