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Governance of project Fuel@OPNFV
Participants in project Fuel@OPNFV agree to the following governance:
Fuel@OPNFV participation
Anyone can join the Fuel@OPNFV project as a contributor
Anyone can nominate him/her self to become a Fuel@OPNFV committer pending approval by an absolute majority vote result from Fuel@OPNFV committers.
Fuel@OPNFV Project lead
Fuel@OPNFV project leads must be a project committer during his/her time as project lead - thus the nomination/election of a project lead inherently means nomination/election of a project committer.
The OPNFV@Fuel project leadership is a one year assignment, the project leadership assignment period spans from June 1 to June 1 the following year. Project lead nomination candidates shall be at hand one calendar month before the assignment period ends.
A project lead nominee candidature is not valid unless the nominee agrees and confirms his/her nomination.
There is no restriction on number of assignment periods for a project leader.
Only project committers are eligible for project lead voting/election.
The voting/election is open/non-anonymized and takes place in a regular weekly project meeting.
In case a project lead wants to step down prior to his/her assignment period ends, it is advisable to do so 2 month prior to effect, this to give time for a thorough nomination and election process.
Fuel@OPNFV rules of arbitration
Although Fuel@OPNFV is an Open-source project with the lead-star of Meritocracy, the expectation of the project lead is that together with the project committers - steer the project into sound future prospects, keeping project and architectural goals in mind. A well respected OPNFV@Fuel project lead should under normal conditions be able to do that by finding consensus - only in extraordinary cases should formal voting be used.
Formal voting on decisions can be requested if a majority of the project commiters request this. In this case, only committers are eligible to vote, and the result should follow the majority vote outcome.