From 1d7357979a4823f5ed6c5ee1efcbfbf6456e87c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gireesh Punathil Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 14:12:29 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] doc: add section for project captains closes https://github.com/expressjs/discussions/issues/98 Co-Authored-By: Wes Todd --- Contributing.md | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Contributing.md b/Contributing.md index f84c0138cb..81e1ad86b2 100644 --- a/Contributing.md +++ b/Contributing.md @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ contributors can be involved in decision making. * 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. @@ -72,14 +73,43 @@ If a consensus cannot be reached that has no objections then a majority wins vot 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