meta: add initial GOVERNANCE.md
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This is the result of a lot of back and forth, the weekly efforts of the governance working group, consisting of: - Martin von Zweigbergk (martinvonz) - Waleed Khan (arxanas) - Emily Shaffer (nasamuffin) - Austin Seipp (thoughtpolice; yours truly) Many thanks as well to emeritus member Khionu Sybiern, who helped kickstart this whole process. Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <[email protected]>
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| Jujutsu is an open source project, lead, maintained and designed for a worldwide | ||
| community. Anyone who is interested can join, contribute, and participate in the | ||
| decision making process. This document is intended to help you understand how |
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nit: hyphenate "decision-making" (maybe just my personal preference, but i noticed that wikipedia does it)
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| TODO: Pending on the initial process of open nominations, decided by Yuya and |
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| - Help users by answering questions | ||
| - Participating in lively and respectful discussions across various channels | ||
| - Submit high quality bug reports |
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nit: hyphenate "high-quality"
| Note that we consider Contributors to all be valuable, but we *do* define them | ||
| as people **who actively participate in the project**. Examples of things that |
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This seems to be saying that we consider non-Contributors valuable. Is that what you meant? Because the "but" doesn't currently seem to indicate any contradiction, so it's a bit confusing. I'm not sure how to say it in a better way. We could just drop the part saying that we consider them valuable.
| For the purposes of making decisions across the project, the following processes | ||
| are defined. | ||
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| ### Decision Making |
| ### Decision Making | ||
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| The person proposing a decision to be made (i.e. technical, project direction, | ||
| etc) can offer a proposal, along with a discussion timeline from 2-to-4 weeks. |
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nit: "from" and the hyphenated "2-to-4" seem inconsistent. Drop the hyphens? Or maybe "along with a 2-to-4-week timeline"
| A final decision can be reached upon consensus being achieved, which is defined | ||
| as more than half of the participating votes (i.e. excluding abstaining votes.) |
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Slightly simpler: "A final decision requires more than half of the participating votes (i.e. excluding abstaining votes.)". I mostly wanted to avoid "consensus" and the risk of the reader trying to guess if that means >=50%. We do say that we mean >50%, but the word "consensus" doesn't seem to add anything. I think the line below can also be dropped because it's just the inverse implication from this sentence (i.e. a => b implies !b => !a).
| proposal can move on and be accepted immediately. In the event no consensus is | ||
| reached, a proposal may be re-submitted later on. | ||
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| This document itself is subject to the Decision Making process by the existing |
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nit: hyphenate "Decision-Making" here too
| active participants. A vote and discussion by the existing Maintainers will be | ||
| used to decide the outcome. |
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Does this require >50% or >=2/3 of the Maintainers' votes?
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You forgot to add it to the website and renaming the old temporary governance. |
After thousands of years of deliberation and discussion (where thousands is approximately 0.6yrs), we've finally achieved a draft of the governance document!
This is a draft, as it is fundamentally incomplete; that will require the election of the initial set of 5 Jujutsu Maintainers, after an open self-nomination period! Stay tuned for more on that.
This is the result of a lot of back and forth, the weekly efforts of the governance working group, currently consisting of:
Many thanks as well to emeritus member Khionu Sybiern, who helped kickstart this whole process.