This is a mechanism by which people involved in OpenMRS Development can progress from a new community member (/dev/null) to a development guru (/dev/5) as their development skills progress. The purpose of developer stages is to help clarify where people are in their journey, motivate people to become increasingly skilled in OpenMRS development, and help us recognize when people are becoming more skilled with OpenMRS Development. Developer stages are not meant to create a bureaucratic process around community privileges.
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