Foundry27 community members are entitled to a wide set of resources to help develop software on the QNX software platform.
Anonymous users browsing the foundry have read access to most of the portal's content with the exception of community downloads.
Registered community members log into Foundry27. They can access community downloads and participate to forums by posting messages. Becoming a registered community member is free, all you need is to create a myQNX account.
Project members are registered community members that are highly involved in the development of a Foundry27 project. Project members are approved by the sponsors of a given project. Although each project is free to manage access control to its resources, the following member roles are usually found in project:
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Contributor: can contribute to the wiki (except the project home page), documents and project downloads sections
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Administrator: has control over all resources found in the project
The following table summarizes the access generally offered to the various resources of projects hosted in Foundry27:
Resource | Anonymous | Registered Member | Contributor | Administrator |
Home page | Read | Read | Read | Read/Write |
Documents | Read | Read | Read/Write | Read/Write/Administer |
Tasks | Read | Read | Read/Write | Read/Write/Administer |
Source Code | Read (see note 1) (Web only) | Read (see note 2) | Read/Write | Read/Write/Administer |
Forums | Read | Read/Post | Read/Post | Read/Post/Administer |
Reports | Read | Read | Read/Write | Read/Write/Administer |
Project Downloads | n/a | Read | Read/Write | Read/Write/Administer |
Wiki | Read | Read | Read/Write | Read/Write/Administer |
note 1: Some projects restrict their code to registered members, no web interface is then available to anonymous users. Such source is then only available from the QNX Source project.