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# Project governance
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The [OCI charter][charter] §5.b.viii tasks an OCI Project's maintainers (listed in the repository's MAINTAINERS file and sometimes referred to as "the TDC", [§5.e][charter]) with:
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> Creating, maintaining and enforcing governance guidelines for the TDC, approved by the maintainers, and which shall be posted visibly for the TDC.
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This section describes generic rules and procedures for fulfilling that mandate.
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## Proposing a motion
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A maintainer SHOULD propose a motion on the dev@opencontainers.org mailing list (except [security issues](#security-issues)) with another maintainer as a co-sponsor.
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## Voting
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Voting on a proposed motion SHOULD happen on the dev@opencontainers.org mailing list (except [security issues](#security-issues)) with maintainers posting LGTM or REJECT.
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Maintainers MAY also explicitly not vote by posting ABSTAIN (which is useful to revert a previous vote).
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Maintainers MAY post multiple times (e.g. as they revise their position based on feeback), but only their final post counts in the tally.
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A proposed motion is adopted if two-thirds of votes cast, a quorum having voted, are in favor of the release.
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Voting SHOULD remain open for a week to collect feedback from the wider community and allow the maintainers to digest the proposed motion.
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Under exceptional conditions (e.g. non-major security fix releases) proposals which reach quorum with unanimous support MAY be adopted earlier.
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A maintainer MAY choose to reply with REJECT.
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A maintainer posting a REJECT MUST include a list of concerns or links to written documentation for those concerns (e.g. GitHub issues or mailing-list threads).
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The maintainers SHOULD try to resolve the concerns and wait for the rejecting maintainer to change their opinion to LGTM.
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However, a motion MAY be adopted with REJECTs, as outlined in the previous paragraphs.
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## Quorum
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A quorum is established when at least two-thirds of maintainers have voted.
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For projects that are not specifications, a [motion to release](#release-approval) MAY be adopted if the tally is at least three LGTMs and no REJECTs, even if three votes does not meet the usual two-thirds quorum.
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## Security issues
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Motions with sensitive security implications MUST be proposed on the security@opencontainers.org mailing list instead of dev@opencontainers.org, but should otherwise follow the standard [proposal](#proposing-a-motion) process.
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The security@opencontainers.org mailing list includes all members of the TOB.
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The TOB will contact the project maintainers and provide a channel for discussing and voting on the motion, but voting will otherwise follow the standard [voting](#voting) and [quorum](#quorum) rules.
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The TOB and project maintainers will work together to notify affected parties before making an adopted motion public.
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## Amendments
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The [project governance](#project-governance) rules and procedures MAY be amended or replaced using the procedures themselves.
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The MAINTAINERS of this project governance document is the total set of MAINTAINERS from all Open Containers projects (runC, runtime-spec, and image-spec).
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## Subject templates
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Maintainers are busy and get lots of email.
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To make project proposals recognizable, proposed motions SHOULD use the following subject templates.
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### Proposing a motion
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> [{project} VOTE]: {motion description} (closes {end of voting window})
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For example:
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> [runtime-spec VOTE]: Tag 0647920 as 1.0.0-rc (closes 2016-06-03 20:00 UTC)
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### Tallying results
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After voting closes, a maintainer SHOULD post a tally to the motion thread with a subject template like:
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> [{project} {status}]: {motion description} (+{LGTMs} -{REJECTs} #{ABSTAINs})
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Where `{status}` is either `adopted` or `rejected`.
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For example:
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> [runtime-spec adopted]: Tag 0647920 as 1.0.0-rc (+6 -0 #3)
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[charter]: https://www.opencontainers.org/about/governance
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