Volcano Governance
Principles
The Volcano community adheres to the following principles:
- Open: Volcano is open source community.
- Welcoming and respectful: See Code of Conduct.
- Transparent and accessible: Changes to the Volcano organization, Volcano code repositories, and CNCF related activities (e.g. level, involvement, etc) are done in public.
- Merit: Ideas and contributions are accepted according to their technical merit and alignment with
project objectives, scope, and design principles.
Expectations from Maintainers
Every one carries water...
Making a community work requires input/effort from everyone. Maintainers should actively
participate in Pull Request reviews. Maintainers are expected to respond to assigned Pull Requests
in a reasonable time frame, either providing insights, or assign the Pull Requests to other
maintainers.
Every Maintainer is listed in the
MAINTAINERS
file, with their Github handle.
Becoming a Maintainer
Please see the requirement here
Changes in Maintainership
If a Maintainer feels she/he can not fulfill the "Expectations from Maintainers", they are free to
step down.
The Volcano organization will never forcefully remove a current Maintainer, unless a maintainer
fails to meet the principles of Volcano community,
or adhere to the Code of Conduct.
Decision making process
Decisions are build on consensus between maintainers.
Proposals and ideas can either be submitted for agreement via a github issue or PR.
In general, we prefer that technical issues and maintainer membership are amicably worked out between the persons involved.
If a dispute cannot be decided independently, get a third-party maintainer (e.g. a mutual contact with some background
on the issue, but not involved in the conflict) to intercede.
If a dispute still cannot be decided, the project lead has the final say to decide an issue.
Decision making process should be transparent to adhere to
the principles of Volcano project.
All proposals, ideas, and decisions by maintainers or the project lead
should either be part of a github issue or PR.
Github Project Administration
The volcano GitHub project maintainers team reflects the list of Maintainers.
Other Projects
The Volcano organization is open to receive new sub-projects under its umbrella. To accept a project
into the Volcano organization, it has to meet the following criteria:
- Must be licensed under the terms of the Apache License v2.0
- Must be related to one or more scopes of the Volcano ecosystem:
- Volcano project artifacts (website, deployments, CI, etc)
- External plugins
- Other AI/BigData related processing
- Must be supported by a Maintainer not associated or affiliated with the author(s) of the sub-projects
The submission process starts as a Pull Request or Issue on the
volcano-sh/volcano repository with the required information
mentioned above. Once a project is accepted, it's considered a CNCF sub-project under the umbrella
of Volcano.
Volcano and CNCF
Volcano is a CNCF project. As such, Volcano might be involved in CNCF (or other CNCF projects) related
marketing, events, or activities. Any maintainer could help driving the Volcano involvement, as long as
create a GitHub Pull Request to call for participation
from other maintainers. The Call for Participation
should be kept open for no less than a week if time
permits, or a reasonable time frame to allow maintainers to have a chance to volunteer.
Code of Conduct
The Volcano Code of Conduct is aligned with the CNCF Code of Conduct.
Credits
Sections of this documents have been borrowed from CoreDns.