Re: Difference of levels for maintainers

Klaus Guenther wrote:

Andrew Nagy <asnagy@webitecture.org> wrote:

I apologize if this is a blatantly dumb question, but I can't find anywhere a descriptions of the difference in levels of package maintainers. Can someone post a description or send me a link to where it might be?

I'm not sure if there's an _official_ listing of them, but here are my definitions ;) - lead: has authority to roll a release, is fully responsible for the package. - dev: someone who regularly contributes to the package. developer, not dev :)

- helper: someone who occasionally contributes major patches, or who has contributed something of extraordinary value. - contributor: someone who has at one time contributed stuff.

The only role that has any significance for the release process is lead, as no other role can release a new version of a package. All the others are for thanking those who do the work, or other non-technical listing reasons. Greg