well, non-native english-speakers have difficulties to use the appropriate words to get understood, but there is shared vocabulary that can be defined precisely in our processes and day-to-day usage ;-)
suggestions for addition welcome :-)

===Mageia Vocabulary===
Vocabulary corresponds to our own jargon, based on actual definitions or common understanding ;-)
should be in alphabetical order, even though grouping by field (tag?) or scope taking into account the context is sometimes more efficient
perhaps add links to wikipedia definitions?

||alpha, bêta, rc (release candidate)|| distribution||relase cycle milestones from development/testing to release||
||bootstrap, bootstrapping||||
||package||
||application||
||board||association||
||core|| packaging, mirror||
||council||||
||distribution||||
||founder||association||
||free, non-free||packaging, mirror||
||tainted ||packaging, mirror||
||OEM||distribution||
||upstream||packaging||
||downstream||packaging||
||crossdistro||packaging||
||trademark||distribution||
||white label product (marque blanche)||distribution||
||RPM||||
||rpm||
||source RPM||
||buildsystem||
||spec||
||dependancies||
||build require (BR)||
||triage, triage team||
||qa, quality assurance, testing||
||OIN||association, legal||Open Invention Network||
||April||association|| ||


check vocabulary at http://mageiacauldron.tuxfamily.org/MageiaReleaseCycle to precise it