Hi All, At http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#roles we have descriptions for the user and the developer roles. But the descriptions are overlapping.
For *user* we have: A *user* is someone that uses our software. They contribute to the Apache projects by providing feedback to developers in the form of bug reports and feature suggestions. Users participate in the Apache community by helping other users on mailing lists and user support forums. And for *developer* we have: A *developer* is a user who contributes to a project in the form of code or documentation. They take extra steps to participate in a project, are active on the developer mailing list, participate in discussions, provide patches, documentation, suggestions, and criticism. Developers are also known as *contributors* . Better would be to change the *user* definition to: A user is a person or organisation experiencing a benefit from the contributions made to the ASF in general or a project in particular. And the *developer* definition should be removed and replaced with a *contributor* definition: A contributor is a person who contributes to a project of the ASF and therefore to the ASF. Contributions are (but not limited to) participations in mailing lists, conferences, providing improvements to code, documentation, supplying suggestions and criticism to further the project in particular and the ASF in general. Recognised contributors are contributors who have also a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA) <http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas> on file. Both new descriptions remove the ambiguity regarding using and contributing from the old descriptions, and the new one for contributor feeds into the diversity aspect. What do you think? Best regards, Pierre Smits *OFBiz Extensions Marketplace* http://oem.ofbizci.net
