- Owners: Owners of smogon.com / pokemonshowdown.com.
- Core: Core development team members - active contributors who have made a sufficient number of quality contributions to the project, whether or not they are programmers or not.
- Programmer: someone who programs. Does not require being 'Programmer' badgeholder on Smogon or being a member of the global Technical Staff on PS, its just a way of indicating what hat you wear.
- Researcher: similar to above (no Smogon badge requirement), but someone who does mechanics research, and would likely be able to answer game mechanics questions that pop up.
- Artist: as above (no Smogon badge requirement), but someone who is an artist/designer and would be able to provide their insight on a UI/UX design change or similar.
- Policy: someone who handles policy/moderation/manages a PS/Smogon community. If input on how a tech change may affect policy is required,
@Policymay be used. Substantial policy changes would still require proper discussion in other mediums (PS<<staff>>room or Smogon staff forums), but initial opinions on these matters could be helpful.
- Owners/Admin - admin privileges on the Discord server. Currently defined to be only PS Tech Admins.
- Trusted - users with access to private code and the
#private-devchannel which is only to be used for discussion of work on that code. Assigned as needed. - Staff - able to see the
#staffchannel, purely used for meta discussion of running the Discord server itself. Anyone who can see the<<dev>>-room/staffintroon PS or is a Community Leader or above on Smogon automatically qualify, as do active and involved badgeholders/contributors with the community on a case-by-case basis (Admin discretion). - Voice - able to speak in Development channels. If you introduce yourself in
#getting-startedand provide enough evidence that you've read the rules aren't going to disrupt contributors you can be granted this role.