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+# distribution/reference Project Governance
+
+Distribution [Code of Conduct](./CODE-OF-CONDUCT.md) can be found here.
+
+For specific guidance on practical contribution steps please
+see our [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md) guide.
+
+## Maintainership
+
+There are different types of maintainers, with different responsibilities, but
+all maintainers have 3 things in common:
+
+1) They share responsibility in the project's success.
+2) They have made a long-term, recurring time investment to improve the project.
+3) They spend that time doing whatever needs to be done, not necessarily what
+is the most interesting or fun.
+
+Maintainers are often under-appreciated, because their work is harder to appreciate.
+It's easy to appreciate a really cool and technically advanced feature. It's harder
+to appreciate the absence of bugs, the slow but steady improvement in stability,
+or the reliability of a release process. But those things distinguish a good
+project from a great one.
+
+## Reviewers
+
+A reviewer is a core role within the project.
+They share in reviewing issues and pull requests and their LGTM counts towards the
+required LGTM count to merge a code change into the project.
+
+Reviewers are part of the organization but do not have write access.
+Becoming a reviewer is a core aspect in the journey to becoming a maintainer.
+
+## Adding maintainers
+
+Maintainers are first and foremost contributors that have shown they are
+committed to the long term success of a project. Contributors wanting to become
+maintainers are expected to be deeply involved in contributing code, pull
+request review, and triage of issues in the project for more than three months.
+
+Just contributing does not make you a maintainer, it is about building trust
+with the current maintainers of the project and being a person that they can
+depend on and trust to make decisions in the best interest of the project.
+
+Periodically, the existing maintainers curate a list of contributors that have
+shown regular activity on the project over the prior months. From this list,
+maintainer candidates are selected and proposed in a pull request or a
+maintainers communication channel.
+
+After a candidate has been announced to the maintainers, the existing
+maintainers are given five business days to discuss the candidate, raise
+objections and cast their vote. Votes may take place on the communication
+channel or via pull request comment. Candidates must be approved by at least 66%
+of the current maintainers by adding their vote on the mailing list. The
+reviewer role has the same process but only requires 33% of current maintainers.
+Only maintainers of the repository that the candidate is proposed for are
+allowed to vote.
+
+If a candidate is approved, a maintainer will contact the candidate to invite
+the candidate to open a pull request that adds the contributor to the
+MAINTAINERS file. The voting process may take place inside a pull request if a
+maintainer has already discussed the candidacy with the candidate and a
+maintainer is willing to be a sponsor by opening the pull request. The candidate
+becomes a maintainer once the pull request is merged.
+
+## Stepping down policy
+
+Life priorities, interests, and passions can change. If you're a maintainer but
+feel you must remove yourself from the list, inform other maintainers that you
+intend to step down, and if possible, help find someone to pick up your work.
+At the very least, ensure your work can be continued where you left off.
+
+After you've informed other maintainers, create a pull request to remove
+yourself from the MAINTAINERS file.
+
+## Removal of inactive maintainers
+
+Similar to the procedure for adding new maintainers, existing maintainers can
+be removed from the list if they do not show significant activity on the
+project. Periodically, the maintainers review the list of maintainers and their
+activity over the last three months.
+
+If a maintainer has shown insufficient activity over this period, a neutral
+person will contact the maintainer to ask if they want to continue being
+a maintainer. If the maintainer decides to step down as a maintainer, they
+open a pull request to be removed from the MAINTAINERS file.
+
+If the maintainer wants to remain a maintainer, but is unable to perform the
+required duties they can be removed with a vote of at least 66% of the current
+maintainers. In this case, maintainers should first propose the change to
+maintainers via the maintainers communication channel, then open a pull request
+for voting. The voting period is five business days. The voting pull request
+should not come as a surpise to any maintainer and any discussion related to
+performance must not be discussed on the pull request.
+
+## How are decisions made?
+
+Docker distribution is an open-source project with an open design philosophy.
+This means that the repository is the source of truth for EVERY aspect of the
+project, including its philosophy, design, road map, and APIs. *If it's part of
+the project, it's in the repo. If it's in the repo, it's part of the project.*
+
+As a result, all decisions can be expressed as changes to the repository. An
+implementation change is a change to the source code. An API change is a change
+to the API specification. A philosophy change is a change to the philosophy
+manifesto, and so on.
+
+All decisions affecting distribution, big and small, follow the same 3 steps:
+
+* Step 1: Open a pull request. Anyone can do this.
+
+* Step 2: Discuss the pull request. Anyone can do this.
+
+* Step 3: Merge or refuse the pull request. Who does this depends on the nature
+of the pull request and which areas of the project it affects.
+
+## Helping contributors with the DCO
+
+The [DCO or `Sign your work`](./CONTRIBUTING.md#sign-your-work)
+requirement is not intended as a roadblock or speed bump.
+
+Some contributors are not as familiar with `git`, or have used a web
+based editor, and thus asking them to `git commit --amend -s` is not the best
+way forward.
+
+In this case, maintainers can update the commits based on clause (c) of the DCO.
+The most trivial way for a contributor to allow the maintainer to do this, is to
+add a DCO signature in a pull requests's comment, or a maintainer can simply
+note that the change is sufficiently trivial that it does not substantially
+change the existing contribution - i.e., a spelling change.
+
+When you add someone's DCO, please also add your own to keep a log.
+
+## I'm a maintainer. Should I make pull requests too?
+
+Yes. Nobody should ever push to master directly. All changes should be
+made through a pull request.
+
+## Conflict Resolution
+
+If you have a technical dispute that you feel has reached an impasse with a
+subset of the community, any contributor may open an issue, specifically
+calling for a resolution vote of the current core maintainers to resolve the
+dispute. The same voting quorums required (2/3) for adding and removing
+maintainers will apply to conflict resolution.