Project maintainers are responsible for activities around maintaining and updating the papiNet API standard. There are three types of project maintainers:
- Voting maintainer, who have 1 vote, and may designate up to one proxy maintainer;
- Proxy maintainer, who have 1 vote only if the voting maintainer by who she/he has been designated as proxy maintainer is absent;
- Non-voting maintainer, who does not participate in voting.
While all maintainers should equally participate in the development of the papiNet API standard, final decisions on the standard reside with the project voting maintainers and proxy maintainers.
Maintainers MUST remain active. If they are unresponsive for >6 months, they will be automatically removed unless a two-thirds supermajority vote of the other project maintainers agrees to extend the period to be greater than 6 months.
New maintainers can be added to the project by a two-thirds supermajority vote vote of the existing maintainers. A potential maintainer may be nominated by an existing maintainer. A vote is conducted in private between the current maintainers over the course of a four weeks voting period. At the end of the four weeks, votes are counted and a pull request is made on the repository adding the new maintainer to the MAINTAINERS.md file.
A maintainer may step down by submitting an issue stating their intent.
Changes to this governance document require a pull request with approval from a two-thirds supermajority vote of the current maintainers.