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Should GOVERNANCE.md be required of all projects? #47

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tobie opened this issue May 12, 2020 · 5 comments
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Should GOVERNANCE.md be required of all projects? #47

tobie opened this issue May 12, 2020 · 5 comments

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@tobie
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tobie commented May 12, 2020

The CPC cares about having open governance models for Foundation projects, yet only requires the governance model be documented for Impact-level projects in GOVERNANCE.md.

This sends a mixed-message.

Maybe extending that documentation requirement to every project would be a good thing.
Even if a number of projects won't have open governance models at first, at least this creates transparency and documents the starting point.

@mhdawson
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I agree that we should all projects to document their governance model.

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bnb commented May 21, 2020

I agree with documenting governance model, though I'd request that it not be required to live in GOVERNANCE.md. Electron approaches this by having a centralized repository for its governance which feels like an equally valid approach.

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tobie commented May 21, 2020

I agree with documenting governance model, though I'd request that it not be required to live in GOVERNANCE.md.

Agreed. AMP, for example, only has a GOVERNANCE.md file in its meta repository. It doesn't live elsewhere either.

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All projects are required to document their decision structure somewhere (in a contributing.md file, on the readme, etc), only Impact projects are required to have a governance.md or Governance repo. we can clarify this on the template.

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tobie commented Aug 6, 2020

A little bit of consistency wouldn’t hurt, here. The governance model could be described in the charter, in governance.md, or in a dedicated repo, for example (referenced from the charter in the latter two examples).

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