besu-docs/MAINTAINERS.md

Maintainers

Active maintainers

Name	GitHub	LFID
Alexandra Tran	alexandratran	alexandratran
Byron Gravenorst	bgravenorst	bgravenorst
Madeline Murray	MadelineMurray	madelinemurray
Nicolas Massart	NicolasMassart	NicolasMassart
Roland Tyler	rolandtyler	rolandtyler

Emeritus maintainers

Name	GitHub	LFID
Steven Gregg	sgregglives	sagregg
Grant Noble	grantnoble	grantnoble
Tim Beiko	timbeiko	timbeiko

Becoming a maintainer

Besu docs welcomes community contribution. Community members can progress to become a maintainer. To become a maintainer the following steps occur, roughly in order.

• The proposed maintainer authors and has accepted five significant changes.
• The proposed maintainer has the sponsorship of at least one other maintainer.
  • This sponsoring maintainer will create a PR modifying the list of maintainers.
  • The proposed maintainer accepts the nomination and expresses a willingness to be a long-term (more than six months) committer.
  • This would be a comment in the above PR.
  • All appropriate communication channels will advertise this PR and it will be mentioned in any maintainer/community call. The appropriate mailing lists or chat channels (if they exist) will also advertise the PR.
• Approval by at least three current maintainers within two weeks of the proposal or an absolute majority of current maintainers.
  • The PR modifying the list of maintainers keeps a record of these votes.
• No recorded vetos by another maintainer within two weeks of the proposal.
  • Accompanying all vetoes must be a public explanation as a comment in the PR for adding this maintainer.
  • The explanation of the veto must be reasonable.
  • You can retract a veto, in which case the approval/veto time frame is reset.
  • It's bad form to veto, retract, and veto again.
• The proposed maintainer becomes a maintainer:
  • Either two weeks have passed since the third approval,
  • Or an absolute majority of maintainers approve.
  • In either case, no maintainer presents a veto.

Removing maintainers

Being a maintainer is not a status symbol or an indefinite title. It will occasionally be necessary and appropriate to move a maintainer to emeritus status. This can occur in the following situations:

• Resignation of a maintainer.
• Violation of the Code of Conduct warranting removal.
• Inactivity.
  • A general measure of inactivity will be no commits or code review comments for one reporting quarter, although this will not be strictly enforced if the maintainer expresses a reasonable intent to continue contributing.
  • A reasonable exception to inactivity is long term leave, such as parental leave or medical leave.
• Other unspecified circumstances.

Like adding a maintainer, the PR making the change records the governance process for moving a maintainer to emeritus status.

Returning to active status from emeritus status uses the same steps as adding a new maintainer. The emeritus maintainer already has the five required significant changes because there is no contribution time horizon for those.