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Certifier Framework for Confidential Computing Governance

Values

The Certifier Framework for Confidential Computing and its leadership embrace the following values:

  • Openness: Communication and decision-making happens in the open and is discoverable for future reference. As much as possible, all discussions and work take place in public forums and open repositories.

  • Fairness: All stakeholders have the opportunity to provide feedback and submit contributions, which will be considered on their merits.

  • Inclusivity: We innovate through different perspectives and skill sets, which can only be accomplished in a welcoming and respectful environment.

  • Participation: Responsibilities within the project are earned through participation, and there is a clear path up the contributor ladder into leadership positions.

Maintainers

Maintainers have write access to the project GitHub repository. They can merge their own patches or patches from others. The current maintainers can be found in MAINTAINERS.md. Maintainers collectively manage the project's resources and contributors.

This privilege is granted with some expectation of responsibility: maintainers are people who care about the project and want to help it grow and improve. A maintainer is not just someone who can make changes, but someone who has demonstrated their ability to collaborate with the team, get the most knowledgeable people to review code and docs, contribute high-quality code, and follow through to fix issues (in code or tests).

A maintainer is a contributor to the project's success and a citizen helping the project succeed.

Becoming a Maintainer

To become a Maintainer you need to demonstrate the following:

  • commitment to the project:
    • participate in discussions, contributions, code and documentation reviews,
    • perform reviews for pull requests,
    • contribute non-trivial pull requests and have them merged,
  • ability to write quality code and/or documentation,
  • ability to collaborate with the team,
  • understanding of how the team works (policies, processes for testing and code review, etc),
  • understanding of the project's code base and coding and documentation style.

A new Maintainer must be proposed by an existing maintainer. A simple majority vote of existing Maintainers approves the application.

Code of Conduct

Maintainers agree to uphold the Code of Conduct and role model appropriate and inclusive behavior within the community.

Voting

While most business is conducted by "lazy consensus", periodically the Maintainers may need to vote on specific actions or changes.

Most votes require a simple majority of all Maintainers to succeed. Maintainers can be removed by a 2/3 majority vote of all Maintainers, and changes to this Governance require a 2/3 vote of all Maintainers.