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Without repeating that material here, the highlights and some elaborations are:
- Project participants are known as Committers, signifying they have commit access to our source code respository. Committer status is reviewed at least annually.
- Important or contentious project decisions are in the hands of a Project Management Committee, or PMC, which is a subset of the Committers. Voting, in the rare cases it is necessary, is done by seeking 3 yes votes and 0 no votes on an issue, and then discussion on any objecting votes to attempt to reach consensus.
- The PMC is tasked with bestowing Committer status and that status is reviewed at least annually by the PMC.
- The Consortium Board has the right to request the removal of a Committer in rare circumstances but the final authority rests with the PMC.
- The PMC is ultimately responsible for the collective work product of the project and has the final authority over the acceptance of any contribution into the code base. In practice this acceptance is implied by the granting of Committer status, and all Committers are expected to review each other's contributions.
The Project Membership page contains the updated list of Committers and PMC members.
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