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| author | mo khan <mo@mokhan.ca> | 2025-05-11 21:12:57 -0600 |
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| committer | mo khan <mo@mokhan.ca> | 2025-05-11 21:12:57 -0600 |
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diff --git a/vendor/github.com/distribution/reference/GOVERNANCE.md b/vendor/github.com/distribution/reference/GOVERNANCE.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..200045b --- /dev/null +++ b/vendor/github.com/distribution/reference/GOVERNANCE.md @@ -0,0 +1,144 @@ +# 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. |
