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Overview

This project aims to be governed in a transparent, accessible way for the benefit of the community. All participation in this project is open and not bound to corporate affiliation. Participants are all bound to the Code of Conduct.

Project roles

Contributor

The contributor role is the starting role for anyone participating in the project and wishing to contribute code.

Process for becoming a contributor

  • Review the coding standards to ensure your contribution is in line with the project's coding and styling guidelines.
  • Have a signed CLA on file ( see below )
  • Have your submission approved by the committer(s) and merged into the codebase.

License

MoonRay is licensed under the Apache, version 2.0 license. Contributions to MoonRay should abide by that standard license.

Contributor License Agreements

Developers who wish to contribute code to be considered for inclusion in MoonRay must first complete a Contributor License Agreement, and email it to MoonRay@dreamworks.com and be sure to include your GitHub username(s).

  • If you are an individual writing the code on your own time and you're SURE you are the sole owner of any intellectual property you contribute, you can sign the CLA as an individual contributor.

  • If you are writing the code as part of your job, or if there is any possibility that your employers might think they own any intellectual property you create, then you should use the Corporate Contributor Licence Agreement.

The MoonRay CLAs are in the OpenMoonRay repo.

Commit Sign-Off

Every commit must be signed off. That is, every commit log message must include a “Signed-off-by” line (generated, for example, with “git commit --signoff”), indicating that the committer wrote the code and has the right to release it under the Apache License, version 2.0 license. See http://developercertificate.org for more information on this requirement.

Committer

The committer role enables the participant to commit code directly to the repository, but also comes with the obligation to be a responsible leader in the community.

Process for becoming a committer

  • Show your experience with the codebase through contributions and engagement on the community channels.
  • Request to become a committer.
  • Have the majority of committers approve you becoming a committer.
  • Your name and email is added to the MAINTAINERS file for the project.

Committer responsibilities

  • Monitor email aliases.
  • Monitor Forums (delayed response is perfectly acceptable).
  • Triage GitHub issues and perform pull request reviews for other committers and the community.
  • Make sure that ongoing PRs are moving forward at the right pace or close them.
  • Remain an active contributor to the project in general and the code base in particular.

When does a committer lose committer status?

If a committer is no longer interested or cannot perform the committer duties listed above, they should volunteer to be moved to emeritus status. In extreme cases this can also occur by a vote of the committers per the voting process below.

Technical Steering Committee (TSC) member

The Technical Steering Committee (TSC) oversees the overall technical direction of MoonRay, as defined in the charter.

TSC voting members consist of committers that have been nominated by the committers, with a supermajority of voting members required to have a committer elected to be a TSC voting member. TSC voting members term and succession is defined in the charter.

All meetings of the TSC are open to participation by any member of the MoonRay community. Meeting times are listed in the MoonRay technical community calendar.

Current TSC members

  • Jon Lanz, Chair / DreamWorks
  • Toshi Kato / DreamWorks
  • Rob Wilson / DreamWorks

Release Process

Project releases will occur on a scheduled basis as agreed to by the TSC.

Conflict resolution and voting

In general, we prefer that technical issues and committer status/TSC membership are amicably worked out between the persons involved. If a dispute cannot be decided independently, the TSC can be called in to decide an issue. If the TSC themselves cannot decide an issue, the issue will be resolved by voting. The voting process is a simple majority in which each TSC receives one vote.

Communication

This project, just like all of open source, is a global community. In addition to the Code of Conduct, this project will:

  • Keep all communication on open channels ( mailing list, forums, chat ).
  • Be respectful of time and language differences between community members ( such as scheduling meetings, email/issue responsiveness, etc ).
  • Ensure tools are able to be used by community members regardless of their region.

If you have concerns about communication challenges for this project, please contact the TSC.