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GOVERNANCE: add 'user', 'committer' and 'contributor'
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As those are commonly used terms in the project.

Closes curl#7151
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However, Daniel works for wolfSSL and we offer commercial curl support there.

## Key roles
# Key roles

### Maintainers
## User

Someone who uses or has used curl or libcurl.

## Contributor

Someone who has helped the curl project, who has contributed to bring it
forward. Contributing could be to provide advice, debug a problem, file a bug
report, run test infrastructure or writing code etc.

## Commit author

Sometimes also called 'committer'. Someone who has authored a commit in the
curl source code repository. Committers are recorded as `Author` in git.

## Maintainers

A maintainer in the curl project is an individual who has been given
permissions to push commits to one of the git repositories.

Maintainers are free to push commits to the repositories at their own will.
Maintainers are however expected to listen to feedback from users and any
change that is non-trivial in size or nature *should* be brought to the
project as a PR to allow others to comment/object before merge.
project as a Pull-Request (PR) to allow others to comment/object before merge.

### Former maintainers
## Former maintainers

A maintainer who stops being active in the project will at some point get
their push permissions removed. We do this for security reasons but also to
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Getting push permissions removed is not a punishment. Everyone who ever worked
on maintaining curl is considered a hero, for all time hereafter.

### Security team members
## Security team members

We have a security team. That's the team of people who are subscribed to the
curl-security mailing list; the receivers of security reports from users and
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expect to retire security team members as they "drift off" from the project or
just find themselves unable to perform their duties there.

### Server admins
## Server admins

We run a web server, a mailing list and more on the curl project's primary
server. That physical machine is owned and run by Haxx. Daniel is the primary
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The website contents are served to the web via Fastly and Daniel is the
primary curl contact with Fastly.

### BDFL
## BDFL

That's Daniel.

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