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Derek McGowan will be joining as a maintainer of containerd. He will bring his extensive experience in graphdrivers and distribution to ensure success in this project. Please welcome him! Signed-off-by: Stephen J Day <stephen.day@docker.com>
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# containerd project maintainers file
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#
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# This file describes who runs the containerd project and how.
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# This is a living document - if you see something out of date or missing,
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# speak up!
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#
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# It is structured to be consumable by both humans and programs.
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# To extract its contents programmatically, use any TOML-compliant
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# parser.
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[Rules]
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[Rules.maintainers]
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title = "What is a maintainer?"
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text = """
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There are different types of maintainers, with different responsibilities, but
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all maintainers have 3 things in common:
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1) They share responsibility in the project's success.
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2) They have made a long-term, recurring time investment to improve the project.
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3) They spend that time doing whatever needs to be done, not necessarily what
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is the most interesting or fun.
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Maintainers are often under-appreciated, because their work is harder to appreciate.
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It's easy to appreciate a really cool and technically advanced feature. It's harder
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to appreciate the absence of bugs, the slow but steady improvement in stability,
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or the reliability of a release process. But those things distinguish a good
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project from a great one.
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"""
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[Rules.adding-maintainers]
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title = "How are maintainers added?"
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text = """
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Maintainers are first and foremost contributors that have shown they are
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committed to the long term success of a project. Contributors wanting to become
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maintainers are expected to be deeply involved in contributing code, pull
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request review, and triage of issues in the project for more than three months.
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Just contributing does not make you a maintainer, it is about building trust
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with the current maintainers of the project and being a person that they can
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depend on and trust to make decisions in the best interest of the project.
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Periodically, the existing maintainers curate a list of contributors that have
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shown regular activity on the project over the prior months. From this list,
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maintainer candidates are selected and proposed on the maintainers mailing list.
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After a candidate has been announced on the maintainers mailing list, the
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existing maintainers are given five business days to discuss the candidate,
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raise objections and cast their vote. Candidates must be approved by the BDFL
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and at least 66% of the current maintainers by adding their vote on the mailing
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list. Only maintainers of the repository that the candidate is proposed for are
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allowed to vote. The BDFL's vote is mandatory.
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If a candidate is approved, a maintainer will contact the candidate to invite
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the candidate to open a pull request that adds the contributor to the
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MAINTAINERS file. The candidate becomes a maintainer once the pull request is
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merged.
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"""
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[Rules.stepping-down-policy]
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title = "Stepping down policy"
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text = """
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Life priorities, interests, and passions can change. If you're a maintainer but
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feel you must remove yourself from the list, inform other maintainers that you
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intend to step down, and if possible, help find someone to pick up your work.
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At the very least, ensure your work can be continued where you left off.
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After you've informed other maintainers, create a pull request to remove
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yourself from the MAINTAINERS file.
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"""
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[Rules.inactive-maintainers]
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title = "Removal of inactive maintainers"
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text = """
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Similar to the procedure for adding new maintainers, existing maintainers can
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be removed from the list if they do not show significant activity on the
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project. Periodically, the maintainers review the list of maintainers and their
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activity over the last three months.
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If a maintainer has shown insufficient activity over this period, a neutral
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person will contact the maintainer to ask if they want to continue being
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a maintainer. If the maintainer decides to step down as a maintainer, they
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open a pull request to be removed from the MAINTAINERS file.
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If the maintainer wants to remain a maintainer, but is unable to perform the
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required duties they can be removed with a vote by the BDFL and at least 66% of
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the current maintainers. The BDFL's vote is mandatory. An e-mail is sent to the
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mailing list, inviting maintainers of the project to vote. The voting period is
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five business days. Issues related to a maintainer's performance should be
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discussed with them among the other maintainers so that they are not surprised
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by a pull request removing them.
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"""
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[Rules.bdfl]
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title = "The Benevolent dictator for life (BDFL)"
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text = """
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containerd follows the timeless, highly efficient and totally unfair system
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known as [Benevolent dictator for
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life](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_Dictator_for_Life), with yours
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truly, Solomon Hykes, in the role of BDFL. This means that all decisions are
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made, by default, by Solomon. Since making every decision himself would be
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highly un-scalable, in practice decisions are spread across multiple
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maintainers.
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Ideally, the BDFL role is like the Queen of England: awesome crown, but not an
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actual operational role day-to-day. The real job of a BDFL is to NEVER GO AWAY.
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Every other rule can change, perhaps drastically so, but the BDFL will always be
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there, preserving the philosophy and principles of the project, and keeping
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ultimate authority over its fate. This gives us great flexibility in
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experimenting with various governance models, knowing that we can always press
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the "reset" button without fear of fragmentation or deadlock. See the US
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congress for a counter-example.
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BDFL daily routine:
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* Is the project governance stuck in a deadlock or irreversibly fragmented?
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* If yes: refactor the project governance
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* Are there issues or conflicts escalated by maintainers?
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* If yes: resolve them
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* Go back to polishing that crown.
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"""
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[Rules.decisions]
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title = "How are decisions made?"
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text = """
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Short answer: EVERYTHING IS A PULL REQUEST.
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containerd is an open-source project with an open design philosophy. This means
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that the repository is the source of truth for EVERY aspect of the project,
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including its philosophy, design, road map, and APIs. *If it's part of the
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project, it's in the repo. If it's in the repo, it's part of the project.*
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As a result, all decisions can be expressed as changes to the repository. An
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implementation change is a change to the source code. An API change is a change
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to the API specification. A philosophy change is a change to the philosophy
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manifesto, and so on.
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All decisions affecting containerd, big and small, follow the same 3 steps:
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* Step 1: Open a pull request. Anyone can do this.
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* Step 2: Discuss the pull request. Anyone can do this.
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* Step 3: Merge or refuse the pull request. Who does this depends on the nature
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of the pull request and which areas of the project it affects.
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"""
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[Rules.DCO]
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title = "Helping contributors with the DCO"
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text = """
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The [DCO or `Sign your work`](
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https://github.com/docker/containerd/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#sign-your-work)
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requirement is not intended as a roadblock or speed bump.
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Some containerd contributors are not as familiar with `git`, or have used a web
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based editor, and thus asking them to `git commit --amend -s` is not the best
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way forward.
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In this case, maintainers can update the commits based on clause (c) of the DCO.
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The most trivial way for a contributor to allow the maintainer to do this, is to
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add a DCO signature in a pull requests's comment, or a maintainer can simply
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note that the change is sufficiently trivial that it does not substantially
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change the existing contribution - i.e., a spelling change.
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When you add someone's DCO, please also add your own to keep a log.
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"""
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[Rules."no direct push"]
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title = "I'm a maintainer. Should I make pull requests too?"
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text = """
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Yes. Nobody should ever push to master directly. All changes should be
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made through a pull request.
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"""
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[Rules.meta]
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title = "How is this process changed?"
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text = "Just like everything else: by making a pull request :)"
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# Current project roles
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[Roles]
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[Roles.bdfl]
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person = "shykes"
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[Roles."Chief Architect"]
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person = "crosbymichael"
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text = """
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The chief architect is responsible for the overall integrity of the technical
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architecture across all subsystems, and the consistency of APIs and UI.
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Changes to UI, public APIs and overall architecture must be approved by the
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chief architect.
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"""
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[Roles."Chief Maintainer"]
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person = "crosbymichael"
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text = """
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The chief maintainer is responsible for all aspects of quality for the project
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including code reviews, usability, stability, security, performance, etc. The
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most important function of the chief maintainer is to lead by example. On the
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first day of a new maintainer, the best advice should be "follow the C.M.'s
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example and you'll be fine".
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"""
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# Current project organization
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[Org]
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[Org.Maintainers]
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people = [
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"crosbymichael",
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"dqminh",
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"dmcgowan",
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"estesp",
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"hqhq",
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"jhowardmsft",
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"mlaventure",
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"stevvooe",
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]
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[People]
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[People.crosbymichael]
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Name = "Michael Crosby"
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Email = "crosbymichael@gmail.com"
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GitHub = "crosbymichael"
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[People.dqminh]
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Name = "Daniel, Dao Quang Minh"
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Email = "dqminh89@gmail.com"
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GitHub = "dqminh"
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[people.dmcgowan]
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Name = "Derek McGowan"
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Email = "derek@mcgstyle.net"
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GitHub = "dmcgowan"
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[People.estesp]
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Name = "Phil Estes"
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Email = "estesp@linux.vnet.ibm.com"
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GitHub = "estesp"
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[People.hqhq]
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Name = "Qiang Huang"
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Email = "h.huangqiang@huawei.com"
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GitHub = "hqhq"
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[People.jhowardmsft]
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Name = "John Howard"
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Email = "jhoward@microsoft.com"
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GitHub = "jhowardmsft"
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[People.mlaventure]
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Name = "Kenfe-Mickaël Laventure"
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Email = "mickael.laventure@docker.com"
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GitHub = "mlaventure"
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[People.stevvooe]
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Name = "Stephen Day"
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Email = "stephen.day@docker.com"
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GitHub = "stevvooe"
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