Project Governance

The basic principle is that decisions are based on consensus. If this decision making process takes too long or a decision is required, the project committee has the authority to make a decision.

Technical Steering Committee

The Technical Steering Committee (TSC) is responsible for:

  1. General ambitions, objectives and goals of this project

  2. Guidelines and procedures and tool selection

  3. Architectural and (development) infrastructure choices

  4. Raise subjects/issues that are important for the direction/development of this project

The community council consists of the following members:

  1. Product Owner - Team RCDT

  2. Solution Architect - Team RCDT

  3. Lead Developer - Team RCDT

Product Owner - Team RCDT will chair the TSC.

Maintainers

Maintainers are responsible for maintaining parts of the code-base. Maintainers have the following responsibilities

  1. Coordinate development activity

  2. Make sure code/documentation reviews are being done

  3. Coordinate pull-requests

  4. Coordinate bug follow-ups

  5. Coordinate questions

  6. In case of long discussions or arguments, maintainers or other can request a community council decision.

The current maintainers of this project are:

  1. Jelmer de Wolde - Team RCDT

  2. Yuri van Warmerdam - Team RCDT

Contributors

Contributors include anyone in the technical community that contributes code, documentation, or other technical artifacts to the project.

Anyone can become a contributor. There is no expectation of commitment to the project, no specific skill requirements and no selection process. To become a contributor, a community member simply has to perform one or more actions that are beneficial to the project.