The project will use Apache 2.0 license for code. To start, the project will not be under any foundation, and does not have immediate plans to do so. However, this may change in the future.
List of maintainers can be found at MAINTAINERS.
Maintainership is driven by engineering contributions to the project, and a n-1 vote among current maintainers is required to make changes to the list of maintainers. Should the quorum of necessary maintainers to merge changes be unmet due to a maintainer’s inactivity for 3 months — without prior notice and concurrence to the absence — the inactive maintainer will be removed from the project and the decision documented.
At any one time, there should be at least 3 maintainers.
Please refer to the Code of Conduct for full details.
Due to the nature of the project aiming to establish a common knowledge graph representation, the project will also have a set of “Technical Advisory Members”.
Technical Advisory Members provide input into the project, to assist in providing maintainers of the project with information that can help lead to more informed decisions and thus, a more successful project. It is noted that Technical Advisory Members’ main purpose is to inform, and the project maintainers will shape its direction, work items and roadmap as they best determine based on the advice provided.
Logistics
- Members will be part of a mailing list that will contain updates from the project
- Members will provide feedback directly to the mailing list or to project maintainers directly in the approved communication medium to ensure all parties are informed
- Membership has no term as long as there is relevance to the project
- Members, and their companies (by choice), will be listed on the project page and contributions acknowledged
- During significant milestones, or quarterly (whichever comes first), an optional meeting/demo will be hosted with invitations to members,
Responsibilities
- Provide feedback to the project on relevant use cases that should be considered in the project
- Provide feedback to the project especially in regards to technical direction and emerging technologies
- Provide recommendations for additional Technical Advisory Members
Technical Advisory Membership is provided by:
- Directly by invitation of project maintainers
- Approved recommendations by other members
- If members are seen to act disruptively, they may be given warnings of their disruptive actions, with up to two warnings. Disruptive behavior
- Upon the 3rd occurance of disruptive behavior, membership may be removed by unanimous vote by maintainers
- Members who are found to be threatening and malicious, e.g. active harassment will be removed immediately with vote by 2 maintainers