CeresDB community roles

Summary

This document describes role division of the CeresDB community. Like other communities, each specific role has its own responsibilities and requirements. On the other hand, role in CeresDB community will have corresponding permissions and authorities.

Our community consists of the following three roles according to the Apache specification

  • Contributor
  • Committer
  • PMC

The requirements, responsibilities, and authorities for each role are described below.

Contributor

Requirements

Submit a PR and get merged in any official CeresDB project.

Responsibilities

Respond positively to PRs or issues assigned to you.

Authority

Being a member of CeresDB community.

Committer

Requirements

New Committers are recommended by existing PMCs and approved by more than 2/3 votes. A committer must meet one or more of the following conditions.

  • Have been a member of the community for more than three months
  • Submitted more than 10 PRs approved by PMC
  • Completed major features
  • Fixed serious bugs

Responsibilities

  • Support community consultation
  • Respond positively to PRs or issues assigned to you
  • Vote on major community decisions
  • Review PRs from the community

Authority

  • Join CeresDB GitHub organization
  • Review Pull Requests
  • Approve Pull Requests

PMC

Requirements

  • More than 2/3 of the existing community PMC voted and approved
  • Focus on project development and participate in community discussions for at least one year

Responsibilities

  • Actively participate in community discussions and guide major community decisions
  • Ensuring that the community activities of CeresDB open source projects work well

Authority

  • Review Pull Request
  • Approve Pull Requests
  • Merge Pull Requests