From 09a11a92b149f0e7d51a62086572050ad4fdc4fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: seabeepea Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2019 13:17:21 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] added GOVERNANCE.md --- GOVERNANCE.md | 155 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 155 insertions(+) create mode 100644 GOVERNANCE.md diff --git a/GOVERNANCE.md b/GOVERNANCE.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..77d300e540 --- /dev/null +++ b/GOVERNANCE.md @@ -0,0 +1,155 @@ +# OpenEXR Project Governance + +The OpenEXR project is owned by the Academy Software Foundation and is governed by its Committers, including a Technical +Steering Committee (TSC) which is responsible for high-level guidance of the +project. + +## Contributors + +The OpenEXR project grows and thrives from assistance from Contributors. +Contributors include anyone in the community that contributes code, +documentation, or other technical artifacts that have been incorporated into the +projects repository. + +## Committers + +The OpenEXR GitHub repository is maintained by OpenEXR Committers. Committers +are Contributors who have earned the ability to modify source code, +documentation, or other technical artifacts to the project. Upon becoming +Committers, they become members of the OpenEXR leadership team. + +Their privileges include, but are not limited to: + +* Commit access to the OpenEXR repository +* Moderator status on all communication channels + +### Committer Activities + +Typical activities of a Committer include: + +* Helping users and novice contributors +* Ensuring a response to questions posted to the openexr-dev alias +* Contributing code and documentation changes that improve the project +* Reviewing and commenting on issues and pull requests +* Participation in working groups +* Merging pull requests + +The TSC periodically reviews the Committer list to identify inactive Committers. +Past Committers are typically given Emeritus status. Emeriti may request that +the TSC restore them to active Committer status. + +### Committer Nominations + +Any existing Committer can nominate an individual making significant and +valuable contributions to the OpenEXR project to become a new Committer. + +To nominate a new Committer, open an issue in the OpenEXR repository, with a +summary of the nominee's contributions. + +If there are no objections raised by any Committers two weeks after the issue is +opened, the nomination will be considered as accepted. Should there be any +objections against the nomination, the TSC is responsible for working with the +individuals involved and finding a resolution. The nomination must be approved +by the TSC, which is assumed when there are no objections from any TSC members. + +Prior to the public nomination, the Committer initiating it may seek feedback +from other Committers in private channels and work with the nominee to improve +the nominee's contribution profile, in order to make the nomination as +frictionless as possible. + +If individuals making valuable contributions do not believe they have been +considered for a nomination, they may log an issue or contact a Committer +directly. + +## Technical Steering Committee + +A subset of the Committers forms the Technical Steering Committee (TSC), which +has final authority over this project. As defined in the project charter, TSC +responsibilities include, but are not limited to: + +* Coordinating technical direction of the Project +* Project governance and process (including this policy) +* Contribution policy +* GitHub repository hosting +* Conduct guidelines +* Maintaining the list of additional Committers +* Appointing representatives to work with other open source or open standards +communities +* Discussions, seeking consensus, and where necessary, voting on technical +matters relating to the code base that affect multiple projects +* Coordinating any marketing, events, or communications regarding the project + +The TSC has a Chair, who acts as the project manager, organizing meetings and +providing oversight to project administration. The Chair is elected by the TSC. +The Chair also serves as the OpenEXR representative on the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) Technical +Advisory Council (TAC). The chair represents the +project at all ASWF TAC meetings. + +### TSC Leaders + +* Chair: Cary Phillips + +### TSC Members + +* Cary Phillips - Industrial Light & Magic +* Rod Bogart - Epic Games +* Larry Gritz - Sony Pictures ImageWorks +* Peter Hillman - Weta Digital, Ltd. +* Kimball Thurston - Weta Digital, Ltd. +* Nick Porcino - Oculus +* Christina Templaar-Leitz - Epic Games +* John Mertic - The Linux Foundation + +### TSC Meetings + +The TSC meets each Thursday at 1pm Pacific Time via Zoom video conference. +TSC meetings are open to the public, https://zoom.us/j/8362240307. +The TSC Chair moderates the meeting, or appoints another TSC member to moderate in his or her absence. + +Items are added to the TSC agenda which are considered contentious or are +modifications of governance, contribution policy, TSC membership, or release +process, in addition to topics involving the high-level technical direction of +the project. + +The intention of the agenda is not to approve or review all patches. That should +happen continuously on GitHub and be handled by the larger group of Committers. + +Any community member or Contributor can ask that something be reviewed by the +TSC at the meeting by logging a GitHub issue. Any Committer, TSC member, or the meeting chair +can bring the issue to the TSC's attention by applying the `tsc-review` label. + +Prior to each TSC meeting, the meeting chair will share the agenda with members +of the TSC. TSC members can also add items to the agenda at the beginning of +each meeting. The meeting chair and the TSC cannot veto or remove items. + +The TSC may invite additional persons to participate in a non-voting capacity. + +The meeting chair is responsible for archiving the minutes, stored at +https://github.com/openexr/openexr/tree/master/aswf-tsc/meetings. + +Due to the challenges of scheduling a global meeting with participants in +several time zones, the TSC will seek to resolve as many agenda items as +possible outside of meetings on the public mailing list. + +### TSC Nomination + +Any proposal for additional members of the TSC may be submitted by Committers +and/or TSC members by opening an issue outlining their case. Formal consensus +should be reached by the existing TSC members. No objections raised by any TSC +members two weeks after the issue is opened does not imply acceptance, if +general consensus cannot be reached by this time a formal vote is required. + +Should there be any objections against the nomination, the TSC is responsible +for working with the individuals involved and finding a resolution. + +### TSC Succession + +A voting member of the TSC may nominate a successor in the event that such +voting member decides to leave the TSC, and the TSC, including the departing +member, shall confirm or reject such nomination by a vote. + +In the event that the departing member’s nomination for successor is rejected by +vote of the TSC, the departing member shall be entitled to continue nominating +successors until one such successor is confirmed by vote of the TSC. If the +departing member fails or is unable to nominate a successor, the TSC may +nominate one on the departing member’s behalf.