| Term | Meaning | More |
|---|---|---|
| 7x | The North American company that leads development, support and hosting of Exponential | Who is 7x? |
| Advocate | A community member who speaks, writes or presents about Exponential | Advocates: start here |
| CLA | The Exponential Foundation and 7x Contributor Licensing Agreement (version 1.1.0); signing it and submitting kernel code assigns the copyright in that code to the Exponential Foundation and 7x | The CLA explained |
| Code of conduct | The Contributor Covenant 2.1 with Exponential additions, binding in all community spaces | The code of conduct |
| Community | The people who use, contribute to, promote and develop software using Exponential worldwide | What the community is |
| Contribution day | A few hours in which a group makes real contributions together | A contribution day |
| dev-main | The Composer name of the main branch, the development line where fixes land first | How releases happen |
| Ecosystem | The greater Exponential world within the PHP stack: its users and creators | Ecosystem: start here |
| Exponential Foundation | The nonprofit, founded 19 March 2026, that operates the project | Who is the Exponential Foundation? |
| eZpedia | A community encyclopedia under the GNU FDL, since 2006 | Contributing to eZpedia |
| Fork | Your own copy of a repository on GitHub, from which you send pull requests | Contributing code |
| GNU FDL | The GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 or later, the license of the documentation | Free documentation |
| GPL | The GNU General Public License version 2 or later, the license of the code | Licenses in the community |
| Maintainer | Someone responsible for keeping a repository or area working: issues, reviews, releases | From contributor to maintainer |
| Manifest | share/filelist.md5, the list of files and checksums every commit keeps current (make manifest-fix) | Contributing code |
| Partner | A company in the Exponential Partner Program that funds the project, contributes back and engages directly with 7x and the Foundation | Partners: start here |
| Projects | projects.exponential.earth, where community projects and extensions are listed | Where people meet |
| Pull request | A proposed change on GitHub, reviewed before it is merged | Contributing code |
| Review round | One cycle of comments and revisions on a pull request | Reviewing and being reviewed |
| Share | share.exponential.earth, the community portal with forums, blogs and articles | Where people meet |
| Sponsor | A person or company that funds 7x or the Foundation, for example through GitHub Sponsors | Sponsors: start here |
| Squash and rebase | Folding the commits of a pull request into logical ones and moving them onto the current main | Reviewing and being reviewed |
| Supporter | Anyone who helps the project with time or money | Supporters: start here |
| Tag | A named release version in Git; a published tag is never changed | How releases happen |
| Tracker | An issue list on GitHub: the software, Velocity, the community | Filing a bug |
Related pages
- Community: start here
- Community FAQ
- Glossary for advocates
- Partner glossary
- Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.
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