What are Submitters, Authors, Maintainers, Contributors, Users, and Observers?

What are the definitions of the different terms in Cauldron?

  • People
  • Submitters
  • Authors
  • Maintainers
  • Contributors
  • Users
  • Observers

Hey, thank you for posting in the forum! I will try to clarify your question:

  • People: I don’t remember having this concept in Cauldron, but I think it may refer to the set of all the other concepts you’ve named.
  • Submitters: They are those people who have contributed to a project by opening an issue or a PR / MR.
  • Authors: They are those people who have contributed to a project generating commits.
  • Maintainers: It is the name we used to give to what is currently known as Submitters (reviews).
  • Contributors: It is the name that we used to give to what is currently known as Authors.
  • Users: It is the name we used to give to what is now known Attendees (Meetup).
  • Observers: It is the name we used to give to what is currently known as Submitters (issues).
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Thank you very much.

I think we need more standard definitions, also in CHAOSS.

I’ve posted an issue in the CHAOSS Common WG: Names and definitions of people -- standardize language in metrics · Issue #113 · chaoss/wg-common · GitHub