Document project governance
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mfisher87 commented
Chatting with @JessicaS11 over the last week, I think we've identified a need to explicitly document how governance works for this project.
- How are decisions made? By whom?
- What rises to the level of a "big decision" that requires buy-in, and what is a "small decision" that can be decided by any community members?
- Where and how do we record big decisions (i.e. decision records / decision log)?
- Who should review before a PR is merged?
- What leadership roles does this project have and who performs them?
- What is the pathway for someone to taking on a leadership role like "maintainer"?
- What do we want/expect to see change about governance in our future?
opensource.guide has an excellent page on governance: https://opensource.guide/leadership-and-governance/
Finally, should we consider review and adoption by an org like pyopensci to help us with governance and other long-term aspects of project maintenance? @JessicaS11 based on what we've discussed so far, I think this would be an excellent strategic move to make the work more sustainable. Perhaps we should break this off into another issue.