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Maintainers

Active Maintainers

Name Github LFID
Ian Costanzo ianco
Jason C. Leach jleach

Emeritus Maintainers

Name Github LFID

Becoming a Maintainer

Aries Mediator Service within the Hyperledger Aries community welcomes contributions. Contributors may progress to become a maintainer. To become a maintainer the following steps occur, roughly in order.

  • 3 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) maintainer.
    • 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 2 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 time-frame 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 Hyperledger 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 3 required significant changes as there is no contribution time horizon for those.