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# Community members & roles

GitLab community members and their privileges/responsibilities.

| Roles | Responsibilities | Requirements |
|-------|------------------|--------------|
| Maintainer | Accepts merge requests on several GitLab projects | Added to the [team page](https://about.gitlab.com/company/team/). An expert on code reviews and knows the product/codebase |
| Reviewer | Performs code reviews on MRs | Added to the [team page](https://about.gitlab.com/company/team/) |
| Developer |Has access to GitLab internal infrastructure & issues (for example, HR-related) | GitLab employee or a Core Team member (with an NDA) |
| Contributor | Can make contributions to all GitLab public projects | Have a GitLab.com account |

[List of current reviewers/maintainers](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/projects/#gitlab-ce).
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			`GitLab community members and their privileges/responsibilities.`

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Add latest changes from gitlab-org/gitlab@master 2020-12-11 01:10:17 -05:00			`\| Maintainer \| Accepts merge requests on several GitLab projects \| Added to the [team page](https://about.gitlab.com/company/team/). An expert on code reviews and knows the product/codebase \|`
Update redirected links to final destination Updating redirected links in the development, install, policy raketasks and university dirs. Should now link to final URL to avoid redirect hops 2019-07-08 20:20:40 -04:00			`\| Reviewer \| Performs code reviews on MRs \| Added to the [team page](https://about.gitlab.com/company/team/) \|`
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Document community roles 2018-09-05 00:03:18 -04:00			`\| Contributor \| Can make contributions to all GitLab public projects \| Have a GitLab.com account \|`

Improve the contributing documentation This removes duplicated content from CONTRIBUTING.md and consolidate everything under doc/development/contributing/. This also fixes missing links. Lastly, this moves the style guides from the "Implement design & UI elements" page to a new "Style guides" page. Signed-off-by: Rémy Coutable <remy@rymai.me> 2018-10-11 07:57:49 -04:00			`[List of current reviewers/maintainers](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/projects/#gitlab-ce).`