Friday February 24, 2006 Seapegasus Blog
Friday February 24, 2006 Many think of open-source community contribution as "code contribution", but this is only one of many ways to participate. The NetBeans community has a flat hierarchy and you don't need to be a hardcore daily build hacker to take part. Here are some examples of what you can do in the NetBeans community:
| Users | The biggest group are the users who download the IDE or Platform and create apps with it. Users also file bugs and ask and answer questions on our mailinglists. Many of them want to put a "created with NetBeans" badge or banner into their application or webpage, so we created a few you can download and use. |
| Contributors | Contributors support (participate in a mailinglist, link to NetBeans from their homepage, or just tell their friends about NetBeans), they submit content (interesting www documents like short how-to's or screenshots, translated www pages or localisations for the IDE, news stories), or they help with development (they file bug reports and enhancement requests, or contribute actual code and modules). If you want to be a Contributor, send your ideas and links to files you want to contribute via the contact form and we will forward it to the respective project maintainer. |
| Developers | Developers do the same things as Contributors, the only difference being that they contribute to a community project on a regular basis, so they are given CVS commit rights to the respective source subtree(s) by the Maintainer of the project. To become a developer, go to a project's homepage that interests you, join, log in and click on Request Project Role. |
| Maintainers | Each project has a Maintainer who often is the Developer who started it, and who volunteered to managed a group of other Developers working on the same project. Each project has a name like http://module.netbeans.org. You can browse the list of existing projects here or apply for a new one by writing a message to nbdev-AT-netbeans.org. |
| The Board | NetBeans board members must be nominated by fellow community members on the public mailing lists. Any participant in the community is eligible for membership on the NetBeans board. The duty of board members has historically been very light, but anyone choosing to shoulder responsibility should be aware that there exists the possibility that they will need to make decisions that can affect the future of the project. |
Speaking of which — Thank you for sending in your nominations for the NetBeans Board Elections! It's the first time that I vote, and it's going to be a tough choice when I look at our list of candidates. If you don't see the voting form in the top right of the Elections, you need to log on first (and make sure JavaScript is activated) to make it appear.
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