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closes expressjs/discussions#98
Co-Authored-By: Wes Todd <wes@wesleytodd.com>
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* A **Contributor** is any individual creating or commenting on an issue or pull request.
* A **Committer** is a subset of contributors who have been given write access to the repository.
* A **Project Captain** is the lead maintainer of a repository.
* A **TC (Technical Committee)** is a group of committers representing the required technical
expertise to resolve rare disputes.

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is called. It is also expected that the majority of decisions made by the TC are via
a consensus seeking process and that voting is only used as a last-resort.

Resolution may involve returning the issue to committers with suggestions on how to
move forward towards a consensus. It is not expected that a meeting of the TC
Resolution may involve returning the issue to project captains with suggestions on
how to move forward towards a consensus. It is not expected that a meeting of the TC
will resolve all issues on its agenda during that meeting and may prefer to continue
the discussion happening among the committers.
the discussion happening among the project captains.

Members can be added to the TC at any time. Any committer can nominate another committer
to the TC and the TC uses its standard consensus seeking process to evaluate whether or
not to add this new member. Members who do not participate consistently at the level of
a majority of the other members are expected to resign.


# Project Captains

The Express TC can designate captains for individual projects/repos in the
organizations. These captains are responsible for being the primary
day-to-day maintainers of the repo on a technical and community front.
Repo captains are empowered with repo ownership and module publication rights.
When there are conflicts, especially on topics that effect the Express project
at large, captains are responsible to bring it up with the TC and drive
those conflicts to resolution. Captains are also responsible in making sure
community members follow the community guidelines, maintaining the repo
and the registry, as well as in providing user support.

Like TC members, Repo captains are a subset of committers.

To become a captain for a project the candidate is expected to participate in that
project for at least 6 months prior to the request. They should have helped with
code contributions as well as triaging issues. They are also required to have 2FA
enabled on both their GitHub and npm accounts. When they want to request the
captain role, submit a PR to this doc, under `Current Project Captains` section
(maintaining the sort order) with the project, their GitHub handle and npm username.
The PR will require at least 2 approvals from TC members and 2 weeks hold time to
allow for comment. When the PR is merged, a TC member will add them to the proper
GitHub groups, as well as grant their npm publish rights.

## Current Project Captains

- `expressjs.com`: @crandmck
- `multer`: @LinusU
- `path-to-regexp`: @blakeembrey
- `router`: @dougwilson

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