Inconsistent and confusing use of terms: 'Manager', 'Project Manager', 'Administrator' and 'Admin'

[SColchester]

Hoping that a cleanup here would solve a lot of confusion around terminology relating to user access levels.

This is the most widely understood use of the term 'Manager', seen from an Organization page. Managers can create projects and teams and edit their organization (I would argue this term is correctly used here):

Unfortunately, in the list of Organizations in the Manage > Organizations page these same users are referred to as 'Administrators'. This is most likely a mistake:

'Admins', as shown in the Manage > Users list are HOT employees who have un-restricted access to create and edit projects, teams and organizations (I would argue this term is correctly used here):

'Project Managers' are teams linked to specific projects under a project's Edit > Permissions page (see below). This gives that team the right to edit existing projects (not to create projects or teams). This terminology is confusing - it is often mistakenly conflated with 'Manager' (referred to above). Recommend new terminology - possibly use 'Project Editor' rather than 'Project Manager'.

@russdeffner FYI (could not find a prior issue related to this so created a new one)

[SColchester]

Just adding here to keep note of it, in Collective meetup @zlavergne suggested using 'Project Maintainer' term instead of 'Project Manager' or 'Project Editor' - definitely agree!

[mugeha-laura]

+1 on using project maintainer instead, for the teams & organizations maybe Community manager or Community administrators could be used -- to differentiate people at the team/org level and the project level.

[SColchester]

I think an easy quick fix for this would be to rename 'Administrators' in the list of Organizations in the Manage > Organizations page to 'Managers' this inconsistency appears to be simply and error - not intentional. @Aadesh-Baral