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## Introduction
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Dear maintainer. Thank you for investing the time and energy to help
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make runc as useful as possible. Maintaining a project is difficult,
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sometimes unrewarding work. Sure, you will get to contribute cool
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features to the project. But most of your time will be spent reviewing,
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cleaning up, documenting, answering questions, justifying design
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decisions - while everyone has all the fun! But remember - the quality
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of the maintainers work is what distinguishes the good projects from the
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great. So please be proud of your work, even the unglamorous parts,
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and encourage a culture of appreciation and respect for *every* aspect
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of improving the project - not just the hot new features.
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This document is a manual for maintainers old and new. It explains what
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is expected of maintainers, how they should work, and what tools are
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available to them.
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This is a living document - if you see something out of date or missing,
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speak up!
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## What are a maintainer's responsibility?
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It is every maintainer's responsibility to:
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* 1) Expose a clear roadmap for improving their component.
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* 2) Deliver prompt feedback and decisions on pull requests.
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* 3) Be available to anyone with questions, bug reports, criticism etc.
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on their component. This includes IRC and GitHub issues and pull requests.
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* 4) Make sure their component respects the philosophy, design and
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roadmap of the project.
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## How are decisions made?
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Short answer: with pull requests to the runc repository.
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runc is an open-source project with an open design philosophy. This
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means that the repository is the source of truth for EVERY aspect of the
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project, including its philosophy, design, roadmap and APIs. *If it's
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part of the project, it's in the repo. It's in the repo, it's part of
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the project.*
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As a result, all decisions can be expressed as changes to the
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repository. An implementation change is a change to the source code. An
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API change is a change to the API specification. A philosophy change is
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a change to the philosophy manifesto. And so on.
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All decisions affecting runc, big and small, follow the same 3 steps:
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* Step 1: Open a pull request. Anyone can do this.
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* Step 2: Discuss the pull request. Anyone can do this.
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* Step 3: Accept (`LGTM`) or refuse a pull request. The relevant maintainers do
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this (see below "Who decides what?")
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*I'm a maintainer, should I make pull requests too?*
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Yes. Nobody should ever push to master directly. All changes should be
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made through a pull request.
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## Who decides what?
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All decisions are pull requests, and the relevant maintainers make
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decisions by accepting or refusing the pull request. Review and acceptance
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by anyone is denoted by adding a comment in the pull request: `LGTM`.
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However, only currently listed `MAINTAINERS` are counted towards the required
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two LGTMs.
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Overall the maintainer system works because of mutual respect across the
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maintainers of the project. The maintainers trust one another to make decisions
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in the best interests of the project. Sometimes maintainers can disagree and
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this is part of a healthy project to represent the point of views of various people.
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In the case where maintainers cannot find agreement on a specific change the
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role of a Chief Maintainer comes into play.
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The Chief Maintainer for the project is responsible for overall architecture
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of the project to maintain conceptual integrity. Large decisions and
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architecture changes should be reviewed by the chief maintainer.
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The current chief maintainer for the project is Michael Crosby (@crosbymichael).
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Even though the maintainer system is built on trust, if there is a conflict
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with the chief maintainer on a decision, their decision can be challenged
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and brought to the technical oversight board if two-thirds of the
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maintainers vote for an appeal. It is expected that this would be a
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very exceptional event.
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### How are maintainers added?
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The best maintainers have a vested interest in the project. Maintainers
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are first and foremost contributors that have shown they are committed to
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the long term success of the project. Contributors wanting to become
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maintainers are expected to be deeply involved in contributing code,
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pull request review, and triage of issues in the project for more than two months.
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Just contributing does not make you a maintainer, it is about building trust
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with the current maintainers of the project and being a person that they can
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depend on and trust to make decisions in the best interest of the project. The
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final vote to add a new maintainer should be approved by over 66% of the current
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maintainers with the chief maintainer having veto power. In case of a veto,
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conflict resolution rules expressed above apply. The voting period is
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five business days on the Pull Request to add the new maintainer.
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### What is expected of maintainers?
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Part of a healthy project is to have active maintainers to support the community
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in contributions and perform tasks to keep the project running. Maintainers are
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expected to be able to respond in a timely manner if their help is required on specific
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issues where they are pinged. Being a maintainer is a time consuming commitment and should
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not be taken lightly.
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When a maintainer is unable to perform the required duties they can be removed with
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a vote by 66% of the current maintainers with the chief maintainer having veto power.
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The voting period is ten business days. Issues related to a maintainer's performance should
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be discussed with them among the other maintainers so that they are not surprised by
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a pull request removing them.
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