Organization
This document describes our organization. It should give a brief overview how we are working on things and where you might need to reach out to.
Diagram
Contributors
Basically everybody who helps the project is a contributor. We even see users as valuable contributors. In case you raise a question, report a bug or request a feature, you are already contributing to the project.
Let us thank you for your contribution. It is lovely to have you in our community.
Special Interest Groups
Every group of contributors can form a Special Interest Group (SIG). If you are into Design, Blogging, Container, or whatever helps the project moving forward, please feel free to form a group or join an existing one.
A SIG must follow some rules to be created and seen as maintained:
- there must be at least 3 permanent members
- every SIG must fill in Product Requirements Document to describe its purpose, objectives and paradigms
- the PRD must be reviewed once a year
- every SIG must have regular, public meetings (ex: every week in IRC)
- the request to open a SIG must be done as a pull request in our organizational repository
- the pull request will be reviewed, refined and approved by the board, but all community members are invited to support
After the approval, a SIG can start with the work. There will be an initial Meeting with the Board and one other SIG to discuss the next steps and demand.
Board
The board is made up of permanent SIG members and represents the project. It is meant as a challenger for ideas, menthor and advisor for the SIGs. In addition, the Board will take care of knowledge gathering and sharing.
There is a voting once a year where every SIG is proposing a candidate. The list of proposed candidates will be made available and the voting will be held anonymously. The new Board will discuss a grace period for handover and methorship from previous board members.