Project Governance Policy
This document provides the governance policy for projects under the Organisation. Maintainers agree to this policy and to abide by all Organisation policies, including the code of conduct, by adding their name to their project’s maintainers list.
1. Roles
Each project may include the following roles. Additional roles may be adopted and documented by individual projects.
1.1. Maintainers. Maintainers are responsible for organising activities around developing, maintaining, and updating their project. Maintainers are also responsible for determining consensus. Each project may add or remove Maintainers with the approval of the current Maintainers.
1.2. Contributors. Contributors are those that have made contributions to a project.
2. Decisions
2.1. Consensus-Based Decision Making. Projects make decisions through consensus of the Maintainers. While explicit agreement of all Maintainers is preferred, it is not required for consensus. Rather, the Maintainers will determine consensus based on their good faith consideration of a number of factors, including the dominant view of the Contributors and nature of support and objections. The Maintainers will document evidence of consensus in accordance with these requirements.
2.2. Appeal Process. Decisions may be appealed by opening an issue and that appeal will be considered by the Maintainers in good faith, who will respond in writing within a reasonable time. If the Maintainers deny the appeal, the appeal may be brought before the Organisation’s Steering Committee, who will also respond in writing in a reasonable time.
3. How We Work
3.1. Openness. Participation is open to anyone who is directly and materially affected by the activity in question. There shall be no undue financial barriers to participation.
3.2. Balance. The development process should balance the interests of Contributors and other stakeholders. Contributors from diverse interest categories shall be sought with the objective of achieving balance.
3.3. Coordination and Harmonisation. Good faith efforts shall be made to resolve potential conflicts or incompatibility between releases.
3.4. Consideration of Views and Objections. Prompt consideration shall be given to the written views and objections of all Contributors.
3.5. Written procedures. This governance document and other materials documenting each project’s development process shall be available to any interested person.
4. No Confidentiality
Information disclosed in connection with any project activity, including but not limited to meetings, contributions, and submissions, is not confidential, regardless of any markings or statements to the contrary.
5. Amendments
Amendments to this governance policy may be made by affirmative vote of 2/3 of all Maintainers across Organisation projects, with approval by the Organisation’s Steering Committee.
Adapted from MVG-0.1-beta by GitHub, licensed under the CC-BY 4.0 License.