From 74a74235240bb5127824e7fea3dbe98adfd00250 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: deepthi Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 13:10:09 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Steering committee doc Signed-off-by: deepthi --- STEERING.md | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+) create mode 100644 STEERING.md diff --git a/STEERING.md b/STEERING.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..a1d15322dc6 --- /dev/null +++ b/STEERING.md @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +# Vitess Steering Committee + +## Overview +This document outlines the mission, scope, and objectives of the Vitess Steering Committee. + +## Goals +The Steering Committee exists as the overall governing body of the Vitess project, providing the project values, operations and structure. + +## Scope +The Steering Committee has a set of rights and responsibilities including the following: + +* Charter for Steering Committee. +* Define and evolve project governance structures and policies, including how contributors become maintainers. +* Define Steering Committee structure, terms and elections. +* Decide, for the purpose of elections, who can vote. +* Logo/landing page/marketing. +* Maintain relationships with CNCF in conjunction with the technical lead and community advocate +* Define, evolve, and defend the vision, values, mission, and scope of the project. +* Establish processes regarding, and provide a final escalation path for any contested project governance related decision. +* Establish processes regarding other project resources/assets, including artifact repositories, build and test infrastructure, web sites and their domains, blogs, social-media accounts, etc. +* Request funds and other support from the CNCF (e.g. marketing, press, etc.). +* Delegate appropriate authority to trusted individuals. + +## Committee Structure +Committee structure will initially be determined by a bootstrap steering committee (see below). Beyond that the steering committee can itself decide to change the committee structure if necessary. + +## Bootstrap Steering Committee +We will form a bootstrap Steering Committee to serve for one year. The responsibilities of the bootstrap committee will be as follows. + +* Charter for Steering Committee. +* Define Steering Committee structure, terms and elections. +* Decide, for the purpose of elections, who can vote. +* Conduct elections to form the next Steering Committee. + +### Members +* Rafael Chacon @rafael +* Michael Demmer @demmer +* Paul Hemberger @pH14 +* Derek Perkins @derekperkins +* Deepthi Sigireddi @deepthi +* Sugu Sougoumarane @sougou, Chair + +## Credits +This document was inspired by + +https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/master/governance-charter.md +https://github.com/kubernetes/steering/blob/master/charter.md +https://github.com/todogroup/governance/blob/master/CHARTER.adoc