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Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 20:02:23 +0100
From: Rory O'Farrell <ofarrwrk@iol.ie>
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Subject: Re: Proposal: Forum integration
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On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 14:51:36 -0400
Rob Weir <robweir@apache.org> wrote:
> If anyone can explain better "Volunteers", that would be great.  Do
> they have any extra rights?  Or is it just the case that some of what
> Apache would call "contributors" are given the title "Volunteer" while
> other, perhaps less active contributors are not given that title?

Volunteers get a different colour code on the Forum User Name and a tag saying that they are Volunteers.  In addition, they get read only access to the Delete thread so they can monitor what is being held in the three day delete period, and read/write access to the Forum issues and Governance threads so that they can raise questions which are visible to the other Volunteers/Mods etc.  Because they have reached a "trusted" status, their opinions may receive more weight with other Volunteers/Mods than those of the random User.

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Rory O'Farrell <ofarrwrk@iol.ie>