diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index bda40015..bf0d8eb0 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -6,18 +6,194 @@ # It is structured to be consumable by both humans and programs. # To extract its contents programmatically, use any TOML-compliant parser. # -# This file is compiled into the MAINTAINERS file in docker/opensource. -# + +[Rules] + + [Rules.maintainers] + + title = "What is a maintainer?" + + text = """ +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. +""" + + [Rules.reviewer] + + title = "What is a reviewer?" + + text = """ +A reviewer is a core role within the project. +They share in reviewing issues and pull requests and their LGTM count 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. +""" + + [Rules.adding-maintainers] + + title = "How are maintainers added?" + + text = """ +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 on the maintainers mailing list. + +After a candidate has been announced on the maintainers mailing list, the +existing maintainers are given five business days to discuss the candidate, +raise objections and cast their vote. Candidates must be approved by at least 66% of the current maintainers by adding their vote on the mailing +list. 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 candidate becomes a maintainer once the pull request is +merged. +""" + + [Rules.stepping-down-policy] + + title = "Stepping down policy" + + text = """ +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. +""" + + [Rules.inactive-maintainers] + + title = "Removal of inactive maintainers" + + text = """ +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. An e-mail is sent to the +mailing list, inviting maintainers of the project to vote. The voting period is +five business days. Issues related to a maintainer's performance should be +discussed with them among the other maintainers so that they are not surprised +by a pull request removing them. +""" + + [Rules.decisions] + + title = "How are decisions made?" + + text = """ +Short answer: EVERYTHING IS A PULL REQUEST. + +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. +""" + + [Rules.DCO] + + title = "Helping contributors with the DCO" + + text = """ +The [DCO or `Sign your work`]( +https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#sign-your-work) +requirement is not intended as a roadblock or speed bump. + +Some distribution 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. +""" + + [Rules."no direct push"] + + title = "I'm a maintainer. Should I make pull requests too?" + + text = """ +Yes. Nobody should ever push to master directly. All changes should be +made through a pull request. +""" + + [Rules.tsc] + + title = "Conflict Resolution and technical disputes" + + text = """ +distribution defers to the [Technical Steering Committee](https://github.com/moby/tsc) for escalations and resolution on disputes for technical matters." + """ + + [Rules.meta] + + title = "How is this process changed?" + + text = "Just like everything else: by making a pull request :)" + +# Current project organization [Org] - [Org."Core maintainers"] + + [Org.Maintainers] people = [ "aaronlehmann", "dmcgowan", "dmp42", - "richardscothern", - "shykes", "stevvooe", ] + [Org.Reviewers] + people = [] [people] @@ -42,16 +218,6 @@ Email = "olivier@docker.com" GitHub = "dmp42" - [people.richardscothern] - Name = "Richard Scothern" - Email = "richard.scothern@gmail.com" - GitHub = "richardscothern" - - [people.shykes] - Name = "Solomon Hykes" - Email = "solomon@docker.com" - GitHub = "shykes" - [people.stevvooe] Name = "Stephen Day" Email = "stephen.day@docker.com"