# Maintainers

## Active Maintainers

<!-- Please keep this sorted alphabetically by github -->

| Name             | Github           | LFID             |
| ---------------- | ---------------- | ---------------- |
| Abdel Bakhta     | abdelhamidbakhta | abdelhamidbakhta |
| Adrian Sutton    | ajsutton         | ajsutton         |
| Antoine Toulme   | atoulme          | atoulme          |
| Byron Gravenorst | bgravenorst      | bgravenorst      |
| David Mechler    | davemec          | davemec          |
| Edward Mack      | edwardmack       | mackcom          | 
| Gary Schulte     | garyschulte      | GarySchulte      | 
| Jason Frame      | jframe           | jframe           |
| Joshua Fernandes | joshuafernandes  | joshuafernandes  |
| Lucas Saldanha   | lucassaldanha    | lucassaldanha    |
| Sally MacFarlane | macfarla         | macfarla         |
| Madeline Murray  | MadelineMurray   | madelinemurray   |
| Mark Terry       | mark-terry       | m.terry          |
| Karim Taam       | matkt            | matkt            |
| Meredith Baxter  | mbaxter          | mbaxter          |
| Nicolas Massart  | NicolasMassart   | NicolasMassart   |
| Stefan Pingel    | pinges           | pinges           |
| Trent Mohay      | rain-on          | trent.mohay      |
| Rai Sur          | RatanRSur        | ratanraisur      |
| Danno Ferrin     | shemnon          | shemnon          |
| Usman Saleem     | usmansaleem      | usmansaleem      |

## Emeritus Maintainers

| Name             | Github           | LFID             |
|------------------|------------------|------------------|
| Chris Hare       | CjHare           | cjhare           |
| Edward Evans     | EdJoJob          | EdJoJob          |
| Ivaylo Kirilov   | iikirilov        | iikirilov        |
| Rob Dawson       | rojotek          | RobDawson        |
| Tim Beiko        | timbeiko         | timbeiko         |

## Becoming a Maintainer

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

- 5 significant changes have been authored by the proposed maintainer and
  accepted.
- 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 6 month) committer.
  - This would be a comment in the above PR.
  - This PR will be communicated in all appropriate communication channels. It
    should be mentioned in any maintainer/community call. It should also be
    posted to the appropriate mailing list or chat channels if they exist.
- Approval by at least 3 current maintainers within two weeks of the proposal or
  an absolute majority of current maintainers.
  - These votes will be recorded in the PR modifying the list of maintainers.
- No veto by another maintainer within two weeks of proposal are recorded.
  - All vetoes must be accompanied by a public explanation as a comment in the
    PR for adding this maintainer
  - The explanation of the veto must be reasonable.
  - A veto can be retracted, in that case the approval/veto timeframe is reset.
  - It is 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 a title to be maintained
indefinitely. 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.
  - Reasonable exceptions to inactivity will be granted for known long term
    leave such as parental leave and medical leave.
- Other unspecified circumstances.

Like adding a maintainer the record and governance process for moving a
maintainer to emeritus status is recorded in the github PR making that change.

Returning to active status from emeritus status uses the same steps as adding a
new maintainer. Note that the emeritus maintainer already has the 5 required
significant changes as there is no contribution time horizon for those.