This document defines governance policies for the Kiali project.
Kiali Maintainers have write access to the Kiali GitHub repositories https:/kiali. They can merge their own patches or patches from others. The current maintainers can be found in https:/orgs/kiali/teams/maintainers.
This privilege is granted with an expectation of responsibility: maintainers care about the Kiali project and want to help it grow and improve. Above the ability to contribute changes, a maintainer has demonstrated the ability to collaborate well with the team, assign appropriate code reviewers, contribute high-quality code, and be thorough and timely with fixes, tests and documentation.
A maintainer is a contributor to the Kiali project's success and a citizen helping the project succeed.
To become a maintainer you need to demonstrate the following:
- commitment to the project
- participate in discussions, contributions, code reviews for 3 months or more,
- perform code reviews for 10 non-trivial pull requests,
- contribute 10 non-trivial pull requests and have them merged into project branches,
- ability to write high quality code,
- ability to collaborate with the team,
- understanding of team policies and processes,
- understanding of the project's code base and coding style.
A new maintainer must be proposed by an existing maintainer by sending a message to the [email protected] mailing list containing the following information:
- nominee's first and last name,
- nominee's email address and GitHub user name,
- an explanation of why the nominee should be a maintainer,
- a list of links to non-trivial pull requests (top 10) authored by the nominee.
Two other maintainers need to second the nomination. If no one objects in 5 working days (U.S.), the nomination is accepted. If anyone objects or wants more information, the maintainers discuss and usually come to a consensus (within the 5 working days). If issues can't be resolved, there's a simple majority vote among current maintainers.
Maintainers can be removed by a 2/3 majority vote by maintainers, or by resignation.
Maintainers will be added to the GitHub @kiali/maintainers team, and made a GitHub maintainer of that team. They will be given write permission to the Kiali GitHub repositories https:/kiali.
All changes in Governance require a 2/3 majority vote by maintainers.
Unless specified above, all other changes to the project require a 2/3 majority vote by maintainers. Additionally, any maintainer may request that any change require a 2/3 majority vote by maintainers.