Overview of Proposal

A few projects have documented the way they manage their maintainers but it would be desirable to increase consistency in how this is done across all the projects. This proposal is about defining a common Maintainers management policy that could then be adopted by the projects.

The following list points to the known existing policies (please add any other that is not listed here):

• Besu: https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/blob/master/MAINTAINERS.md
• Fabric: https://hyperledger-fabric.readthedocs.io/en/latest/CONTRIBUTING.html#maintainers
• Sawtooth: https://github.com/hyperledger/sawtooth-rfcs/blob/master/text/0006-sawtooth-governance.md#contributor-permission-levels
• Grid (same as Sawtooth): https://github.com/hyperledger/grid-rfcs/blob/master/text/0008-grid-governance.md#contributor-permission-levels
• Transact (same as Sawtooth): https://github.com/hyperledger/transact-rfcs/blob/master/text/0000-transact-governance.md#contributor-permission-levels

Formal Proposal(s)

TBD

Action Items

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Reviewed By

• Angelo De Caro
• Arnaud J Le Hors
• Christopher Ferris
• Dan Middleton
• Gari Singh
• Hart Montgomery
• Mark Wagner
• Nathan George
• Swetha Repakula
• Tracy Kuhrt
• Troy Ronda