beat contributor, beat writer

[Miloš Komarčević]

On 4/30/07, Alain PORTAL <alain.portal at free.fr> wrote:
> Le lundi 30 avril 2007, Alain PORTAL a écrit :
> > Can somebody tell me what are a beat contributor and a beat writer?

People who contribute to, or write "beats".

I'm not a native English speaker nor a beat contributor, but the way I
understand, "beats" are smallest logical bits/short sections of the
release notes, like e.g a "beat" on Xorg, a "beat" on the kernel, etc.

More on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats

HTH,
Miloš