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Roy FieldingRoy FieldingPosted May 1, 2008 2:36 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)In reply to: Roy Fielding by movement Parent article: Sun and corporate open source
"Developers" aren't merely those who contribute code. Any good contributor (management, packager, translator, artists etc) to a project can be viewed as a developer and the loss of any of them can and in many cases does have a higher impact than a "hacker". Dismissing their contributors doesn't do us any good.
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Roy Fielding Posted May 1, 2008 2:45 UTC (Thu) by movement (guest, #871) [Link] Sorry, no. A software developer is someone designs, writes, or fixes software. There are many other ways to contribute, as you point out. But Roy wasn't a developer on OpenSolaris, and the correction I made stands.
Roy Fielding Posted May 1, 2008 8:22 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] The article refers to opensolaris developers. From a project perspective, this doesn't confine to just software developers but everybody involved in the project. Package maintainers wouldn't necessarily count as developers possibly by using a strict definition since their primary task isn't designing or writing software but they are widely regarded as such and term is used more loosely. You view point seems different.
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