Non-coding project participants

[Dan Smith]

Hi,

In the Valhalla project we have some potential project participants who do not intend to submit patches to the project repositories, but would like to contribute to the project wiki, or perhaps in other non-coding ways.

What is the recommended process for setting up these people?

From the OpenJDK wiki: "Anyone who has registered in the OpenJDK infrastructure (for instance by becoming a Project Author) may edit the Group and Project contents of this site."

1) Are there any other relevant Project roles (besides Author) for these non-coding participants?

If not, to become an Author:

"The Project Lead may appoint any Contributor who has made at least two sponsored contributions to the Project to be a Author."

"Project Leads are encouraged to grant the Author role only to Contributors who appear likely to continue to contribute for some time so that they will eventually be nominated to the Committer role."

"As a rough guide, a Contributor should make at least eight significant contributions to that Project before being nominated."

These potential participants can sign an OCA, but aren't inclined to make code patches (we can create busywork for them to muck around in our repo, or store documentation in the repo rather than the wiki, but these are counter-productive workarounds).  They do, however, have a history (or can establish a history) in mailing lists of "significant contributions to [the] Project".

2) Are Project Leads allowed the discretion of appointing Authors who have made "significant contributions" that do not take the form of "sponsored contributions" of code?

3) If the answers to (1) and (2) do not suggest a way forward, what should we do instead?

Thanks,
Dan