While the initial committers on a project are nominated at project formation, it is expected that community members will emerge as willing committers over time.

Committer nomination and promotion must take place according to Section 8 of the TSC Charter. This page intends to describe how the charter shall be interpreted in a practical step by step manner.

Project contributors who are interested in promotion to project committer should first approach the project leader and committer community to discuss their interest and receive feedback on their work within the community. To be promoted to committer the TSC will be looking for the nominated contributors to have demonstrated:

• A history of active contributions in the project
• Has demonstrated to the project lead and committer a deep knowledge of the code and project best practices
• Has shown a willingness to lead and coordinate amongst peers

Once the project lead and committers feel the candidate has demonstrated these items to the point where a nomination may occur the project lead or a delegate may initiate a nomination for committer promotion amongst the projects current committers.

The nomination for committer promotion begins with the project lead or delegate sending an e-mail to the opnfv-tech-discuss mailing list with the appropriate project identified in the subject line %[project-name]% requesting the committers on the project vote on the nomination. The nomination e-mail should begin with a clear topic name and be followed by a statement of motivation. The statement of motivation should describe any achievements or activities the contributor has performed of notable value for the project and may include a link to a git-log of the nominees activity history. More than one contributor may be nominated in one nomination e-mail. The e-mail may take the following form:

• From: <project lead>
• To: opnfv-tech-discuss@lists.opnfv.org
• Subject: [project-name] Nomination of Committer(s) promotion for: <contributors name(s)>
• Body: The motivation for nominating <contributors name> to committer on the <project> project is due to a long history of providing value to the project through consistent high quality and valuable contributions. <refer to relevant contributions and the value they provided to the project> I provide a link to the relevant contributions. <link>

Once the e-mail has been sent the nomination stands until a clear majority vote for or against the nomination has been met, or the nominator withdraws the nomination. Voting shall take place according to the Condorcet or single transferable vote methods outlined in Section 7 of the [https://www.opnfv.org/developers/technical-project-governance/tsc-charter|TSC charter].

At the completion of a nomination process, if the nominee was successful, the nominator should address the TSC via the TSC mailing list opnfv-tsc@lists.opnfv.org by forwarding the nomination e-mail along with a summary of the outcome of the committer votes. The TSC Chair should be contacted to identify a suitable time-slot at the available opportunity for the TSC to take a formal vote on the nomination. The TSC will consider the following as relevant to the decision:

• The nomination process and the outcome as captured by the project lead or delegate
• The number of committers on the project and the need for an increase in committers
• Any community feedback received around the nomination or nominee

The TSC will vote on the nomination according to the voting methods outlined in Section 7 of the [https://www.opnfv.org/developers/technical-project-governance/tsc-charter|TSC charter]. The outcome of the vote will be recorded in the minutes of the meeting and any associated reasoning for the decision that has been taken. If the vote on the TSC is successful the OPNFV administrative team will be informed and the nominee will be promoted to project committer.

If the vote on the TSC was not successful the reasoning and motivations for the decision will be captured in the meeting minutes. The project lead may choose to act to redress the captured reasoning and once ready nominate the contributor once more following the above described process.