Contributor

In the Ultra Transcenders books

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Each book explains Contributor in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.

Terms in this definition

• Role

  How an actor normally or expectedly behaves, or the part a person takes in a process. A single actor may hold more than one role.

Related terms

• Branch out

  Part of Fabric's Git integration: an Admin, Member or Contributor makes a new branch off the one their workspace is synced with, then points a new or existing workspace at it, optionally taking only certain items along.

• Build permission

  Allows a person to make new things on top of a semantic model: reports, Analyze in Excel sessions or XMLA endpoint queries, for example. Anyone with the Contributor workspace role or higher gets it without being granted it separately.

• Contributors

  Most Azure DevOps users belong to this default project group, which lets them read and change code, work items and pipelines but not administer anything. Don't confuse it with Azure RBAC's Contributor.

• CONTROL

  Granting this on a securable gives all other permissions on it too, making it the most powerful SQL permission. At database scope that includes UNMASK and ALTER ANY MASK. Warehouse access through the Admin, Member or Contributor workspace roles carries it.

• Defender for Cloud pull request annotations

  DevOps security comments on IaC problems, posted only against the lines a pull request changes, in GitHub or Azure DevOps. Defender CSPM is a prerequisite; on Azure DevOps you also need Contributor or Owner rights and a Build Validation policy on main.

• Email Azure Resource Manager role

  Action group notification type: when an alert fires, it emails every user or group assigned the chosen subscription-level role, whether Monitoring Reader, Reader, Owner, Monitoring Contributor or Contributor.

• Feed roles

  In ascending order of rights, each including the last: Feed Reader; Feed and Upstream Reader, or Collaborator, who may save from upstream sources; Feed Publisher, or Contributor, who may publish; and Feed Owner.

• Fork

  A server-side copy of a repository in which a contributor's changes stay separate until a pull request brings them into the original. Forks suit projects with many occasional contributors; small teams generally manage with branches alone.