asf-site-src/source/documentation/in-progress/precommit/glossary.html.md

<!---
  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
  distributed with this work for additional information
  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
  specific language governing permissions and limitations
  under the License.
-->

# Glossary

## Generic/outside definitions

Apache's [new contributor documentation](https://community.apache.org/contributors/) and Maven's [glossary](https://maven.apache.org/glossary.html) are great places to start if you are new to Apache or Maven.

* Module

  Almost the same meaning as "sub-project" on Maven.

## test-patch specific

* Personality

  A chunk of shell code that tells test-patch this particular project's needs and special requirements

* Plug-ins

  Shell code snippets that define new, not built-in test types.

* Precommit

  An automated process that verifies a patch is "good" prior to a committer looking at it.