Maintainers¶
Active Maintainers¶
| Name | Github | LFID |
|---|---|---|
| Daniel Hardman | dhh1128 | |
| George Aristy | llorllale | |
| Nathan George | nage | |
| Stephen Curran | swcurran | |
| Drummond Reed | talltree | |
| Sam Curren | TelegramSam |
Emeritus Maintainers¶
| Name | Github | LFID |
|---|---|---|
Becoming a Maintainer¶
The Aries community welcomes contributions. Contributors may progress to become a maintainer. To become a maintainer the following steps occur, roughly in order.
- 5 significant changes have been authored by the proposed maintainer and accepted.
- The proposed maintainer has the sponsorship of at least one other maintainer.
- This sponsoring maintainer will create a PR modifying the list of maintainers.
- The proposed maintainer accepts the nomination and expresses a willingness to be a long-term (more than 6 month) committer.
- This would be a comment in the above PR.
- This PR will be communicated in all appropriate communication channels. It should be mentioned in any maintainer/community call. It should also be posted to the appropriate mailing list or chat channels if they exist.
- Approval by at least 3 current maintainers within two weeks of the proposal or an absolute majority of current maintainers.
- These votes will be recorded in the PR modifying the list of maintainers.
- No veto by another maintainer within two weeks of proposal are recorded.
- All vetoes must be accompanied by a public explanation as a comment in the PR for adding this maintainer
- The explanation of the veto must be reasonable.
- A veto can be retracted, in that case the approval/veto timeframe is reset.
- It is bad form to veto, retract, and veto again.
- The proposed maintainer becomes a maintainer
- Either two weeks have passed since the third approval,
- Or an absolute majority of maintainers approve.
- In either case, no maintainer presents a veto.
Removing Maintainers¶
Being a maintainer is not a status symbol or a title to be maintained indefinitely. It will occasionally be necessary and appropriate to move a maintainer to emeritus status. This can occur in the following situations:
- Resignation of a maintainer.
- Violation of the Code of Conduct warranting removal.
- Inactivity.
- A general measure of inactivity will be no commits or code review comments for one reporting quarter, although this will not be strictly enforced if the maintainer expresses a reasonable intent to continue contributing.
- Reasonable exceptions to inactivity will be granted for known long term leave such as parental leave and medical leave.
- Other unspecified circumstances.
Like adding a maintainer the record and governance process for moving a maintainer to emeritus status is recorded in the github PR making that change.
Returning to active status from emeritus status uses the same steps as adding a new maintainer. Note that the emeritus maintainer already has the 5 required significant changes as there is no contribution time horizon for those.