I'm not sure if this is addressed at me or Karsten, or someone else, but I'll take
a stab at replying.
On 1 Mar 2013, at 16:54, Gina Likins <glikins(a)redhat.com> wrote:
A quick question about the most recent definition (which is, I think,
clearer than the last one):
>
http://www.theopensourceway.org/book/The_Open_Source_Way-Introduction-Ess...
>> "When we talk about community in the The Open Source Way, we mean the
>> community of contributors who are enablers for all other communities.
>> The ones who, by getting things done, make it possible for many,
>> many more to get much, much more done."
You say "contributors who are enablers" and "[people who are] getting
things done." My lack of understanding is probably due to my lack of experience in
real OS development communities, but I can see two of interpretations of this (either,
neither or both of which may be true ;-)
(a) you mean the people who are involved in the actual tool development
We're covering all software development here, not just tools.
-- submitting bugs, making patches, etc. For example, everyone who
works on the JBoss application (but not everyone who develops *using* the JBoss
application) [and I beg forgiveness if I've gotten that model wrong].
Well, JBoss is a product line from Red Hat, that encompasses a number of products - see
http://www.redhat.com/products/jbossenterprisemiddleware/. We tend to refer to these
things not as "applications" but as frameworks, runtimes, platforms or
libraries, and an application is something that uses one of these products, and has some
end-user facing aspect (e.g. a banking application, a CRM application). We refer to people
who contribute to any of our middleware products as "contributors to JBoss". We
also somewhat confusingly have upstream projects, just like RHEL has Fedora, that also get
called "JBoss projects", so a contributor to JBoss could also be contributing to
these projects.
(b) you mean everyone who works on the project, whether it's on
tool development or on "marketing" materials or on steering committees?
For us, a contributor is someone who contributes anything - be it code, bug reports,
answers to questions in forums, documentation, tutorials, web pages, time.
Do you just mean the "contributors" in the tool development sense or everyone?
I suspect it's the latter, but wanted to make sure I was understanding it well.
Thanks,
Gina
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