Cloud Hypervisor is an open source organization and community hosting several projects aiming at building a modern and innovative cloud virtualization ecosystem.
The Cloud Hypervisor organization is governed according to the "four opens", which are open source, open design, open development, and open community.
Technical decisions are made by technical contributors and a representative Architecture Committee.
The Cloud Hypervisor organization is composed of several projects, like e.g. the cloud-hypervisor or the rust-hypervisor-firmware ones.
A project is the primary unit of collaboration, therefore each project has its own repository and maintainers team. All projects follow the Code of Conduct.
There are two roles relevant to the Cloud Hypervisor projects:
Anyone that contributed to one of the Cloud Hypervisor projects within the last 12 months is a Contributor. Any merged Pull Request is considered a valid contribution.
Contributions are not limited to code alone. Documentation, tests, tools, project artifacts are all valuable ways to contribute to a Cloud Hypervisor project.
Project contributions will be reviewed by the project maintainers and should pass all applicable tests.
Each project has one or more Maintainers. Project maintainers are first and foremost active Contributors to the project and are responsible for:
- Setting technical directions for the project.
- Facilitating, reviewing and merging contributions. They have write access to the project repository.
- Creating and assigning project issues.
- Enforcing the Code of Conduct
The list of maintainers for a project is defined by the project
MAINTAINERS.md file.
Existing maintainers may decide to elevate a Contributor to the Maintainer role based on the contributor established trust and contributions relevance. This decision process is not formally defined and is based on lazy consensus from the existing maintainers.
Any contributor may request for becoming a project maintainer by opening an issue and assigning all current maintainers to it. Maintainers may also pro-actively promote contributors based on their contributions and leadership track record.
The Architecture Committee is responsible for architectural decisions and making final decisions if Maintainers for a particular project disagree. It is comprised of six members, who are elected by Contributors.
The current Architecture Committee members are:
- Liu Jiang (@jiangliu) Alibaba
- Liu Wei (@liuw) Microsoft
- Michael Zhao (@michael2012z) ARM
- Robert Bradford (@rbradford) Intel
- Samuel Ortiz (@sameo) Apple
The Cloud Hypervisor Architecture Committee elections take place yearly, in April. Three seats are available for renewal at every election.
Any Cloud Hypervisor Contributor can run for a seat and is eligible to vote. In order to encourage diversity, no more than 2 of the 5 seats can be filled by any one organization.