Roles

Members

Members should read the Project documentation:

• Contributing Guidelines,
• README, and
• Release Planning document before attenting to submit an Issue or Pull Request.

Editors

• Editors are responsible for ensuring that the contents of the document accurately reflect the decisions that have been made by the group, and that the specification adheres to formatting and content guidelines.
• Each Working Group will designate an Editor or Editors for that Working Group.
• A Working Group may select a new Editor or Editors upon Approval of the Working Group Participants.

Chairs and Vice-Chairs

• Chairs are responsible for organizing activities around developing, maintaining, and updating the specification(s) developed by the Working Group.
• Chairs are also responsible for determining consensus and coordinating appeals.
• Each Working Group will designate one Chair.
• A Working Group may select a Vice-Chair upon Approval of the Working Group Participants.

Chair and Vice-Chair Best Practices

• In performing their tasks, Working Group Chairs SHALL maintain strict impartiality and act in the interest of the Organization.
• Chairs MAY limit the amount of time allocated to a particular agenda item or discussion point.
• Chairs SHALL, after a reasonable period of discussion time, use means to quickly reach a decision including (but not limited to):
  • a statement of the Chairs’s view of group consensus, which shall be accepted by the group if there are no objections.
  • assignment of action items to progress the issue in a short a time period as possible.
  • invite single or few objectors to no longer sustain their objections.
  • informal voting.
  • formal voting.
• Chairs MAY require that new information be provided about an issue before earlier decisions can be reopened/revisited.
• The work and progress of the group is appropriately communicated through regular status reports to the SC.
• The Chair MAY delegate tasks to other Chairs, including chairing the group as and when necessary.
• The Chair MUST keep the project documentation up to date (e.g.: contributing, readme and release planning documents).
• The Chair MUST apply "Review & Approval" process to contributions submitted by the Working Group members
• The Chair SHOULD use GitHub "Labels" to indicate the type of “Review & Approval” assigned to each Pull Request.
• The Chairs and Vice-Chairs SHOULD moderate the work within the group to ensure the work progresses in a timely manner.
• The Chair SHOULD close contributions that do not follow the rules, or meet the right quality or are related to features that are in the scope of the Release Version under development.