CommunityStructure.adoc

Community Structure

Membership Levels

[Level 1] Contributor

• Criteria: 1 merged PR.

[Level 2] Committer

• Criteria: At least a month of contributions.

• Privileges:

  • Write access to upstream repo (push, edit label)

• Activity level: Should contribute to most release cycles

[Level 3] Snr Developer

• Criteria: More than three months of active contributions.

• Responsibilities:

  • Peer review other PRs

• Activity level: Should contribute to almost all release cycles

[Level 4] Area Lead

• Criteria: Has a deep knowledge of the respective feature/aspect/tech/tool.

• Responsibilities:

  • Be main reviewer for PRs

  • Follow up on incoming issues related to the area

  • Fix critical/urgent issues in the area

Release Lead

• Make releases as described in here

• Activity level: Once per release cycle

Community Lead

• Responsibilities:

  • Respond to first contacts from potential contributors

• Activity level: Daily

[Level 5] Project Lead

• Privileges: admin access to repo

• Responsibilities:

  • Manage PRs through their life cycle

    • Assign reviewers

    • Deal with slow/inactive PRs

  • Can take part in issue triaging

• Activity level: Daily

[Level 6] Project Adviser

• Criteria: Can advice devs based on,

  • extensive past experience with the project (e.g. someone who was an active developer for several years in the past)

  • deep expertise in some area relevant to the project (e.g. a domain expert)

• Responsibilities:

  • Contributes to the project as a reviewer and an area expert

[Level 7] Project Manager

In charge of the entire project.

• Responsibilities

  • Triaging issues

• Activity level: Daily

Other Classifications

• Active members: Someone who contributes code/reviews to almost every release cycle, thereby helping to maintain the project velocity.
  

• Core members: Those who are at level 2 (i.e. Committer) or above and are 'active members'.

• Lead members: Core members who are at level 4 or above.

• Past members: Past core members who are no longer active.

GitHub Permissions

Team name	Permissions	Members
Committers	write	All core members
Managers	admin	Team leads and above