vitess.io/vitess@v0.16.2/STEERING.md (about)

     1  # Vitess Steering Committee
     2  
     3  ## Overview
     4  This document outlines the mission, scope, and objectives of the Vitess Steering Committee.
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     6  ## Goals
     7  The Steering Committee exists as the overall governing body of the Vitess project, providing the project values, operations and structure.
     8  
     9  ## Scope
    10  The Steering Committee has a set of rights and responsibilities including the following:
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    12  * Charter for Steering Committee.
    13  * Define and evolve project governance structures and policies, including how contributors become maintainers.
    14  * Define Steering Committee structure, terms and elections.
    15  * Decide, for the purpose of elections, who can vote.
    16  * Logo/landing page/marketing.
    17  * Maintain relationships with CNCF in conjunction with the technical lead and community advocate
    18  * Define, evolve, and defend the vision, values, mission, and scope of the project.
    19  * Establish processes regarding, and provide a final escalation path for any contested project governance related decision.
    20  * Establish processes regarding other project resources/assets, including artifact repositories, build and test infrastructure, web sites and their domains, blogs, social-media accounts, etc.
    21  * Request funds and other support from the CNCF (e.g. marketing, press, etc.).
    22  * Delegate appropriate authority to trusted individuals.
    23  
    24  ## Committee Structure
    25  Committee structure will initially be determined by a bootstrap steering committee (see below). Beyond that the steering committee can itself decide to change the committee structure if necessary.
    26  
    27  ## Bootstrap Steering Committee
    28  We will form a bootstrap Steering Committee to serve for one year. The responsibilities of the bootstrap committee will be as follows.
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    30  * Charter for Steering Committee.
    31  * Define Steering Committee structure, terms and elections.
    32  * Decide, for the purpose of elections, who can vote.
    33  * Conduct elections to form the next Steering Committee.
    34  
    35  ### Members
    36  * Rafael Chacon @rafael
    37  * Michael Demmer @demmer
    38  * Paul Hemberger @pH14
    39  * Derek Perkins @derekperkins
    40  * Deepthi Sigireddi @deepthi
    41  * Sugu Sougoumarane @sougou, Chair
    42  
    43  ## Credits
    44  This document was inspired by
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    46  https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/master/governance-charter.md
    47  https://github.com/kubernetes/steering/blob/master/charter.md
    48  https://github.com/todogroup/governance/blob/master/CHARTER.adoc