besu/MAINTAINERS.md

Maintainers

Active Maintainers

Name	Github	LFID
Adrian Sutton	ajsutton	ajsutton
Antony Denyer	antonydenyer	antonydenyer
Antoine Toulme	atoulme	atoulme
Byron Gravenorst	bgravenorst	bgravenorst
Daniel Lehrner	daniellehrner	daniellehrner
Diego López León	diega	diega
Fabio Di Fabio	fab-10	fab-10
Frank Li	frankisawesome	frankliawesome
Gary Schulte	garyschulte	GarySchulte
Jiri Peinlich	gezero	JiriPeinlich
Justin Florentine	jflo	RoboCopsGoneMad
Jason Frame	jframe	jframe
Joshua Fernandes	joshuafernandes	joshuafernandes
Lucas Saldanha	lucassaldanha	lucassaldanha
Sally MacFarlane	macfarla	macfarla
Mark Terry	mark-terry	m.terry
Karim Taam	matkt	matkt
Meredith Baxter	mbaxter	mbaxter
Nicolas Massart	NicolasMassart	NicolasMassart
Stefan Pingel	pinges	pinges
Danno Ferrin	shemnon	shemnon
Simon Dudley	siladu	siladu
Taccat Isid	taccatisid	taccatisid
Usman Saleem	usmansaleem	usmansaleem

Emeritus Maintainers

Name	Github	LFID
Abdel Bakhta	abdelhamidbakhta	abdelhamidbakhta
Chris Hare	CjHare	cjhare
David Mechler	davemec	davemec
Edward Evans	EdJoJob	EdJoJob
Edward Mack	edwardmack	mackcom
Ivaylo Kirilov	iikirilov	iikirilov
Madeline Murray	MadelineMurray	madelinemurray
Trent Mohay	rain-on	trent.mohay
Rai Sur	RatanRSur	ratanraisur
Rob Dawson	rojotek	RobDawson
Sajida Zouarhi	sajz	SajidaZ
Tim Beiko	timbeiko	timbeiko
Vijay Michalik	vmichalik	VijayMichalik

Becoming a Maintainer

Besu welcomes community contribution. Each community member may progress to become a maintainer.

How to become a maintainer:

• Contribute significantly to the code in this repository.

Maintainers contribution requirement

The requirement to be able to be proposed as a maintainer is:

• 5 significant changes on code have been authored in this repos by the proposed maintainer and accepted (merged PRs).

Maintainers approval process

The following steps must occur for a contributor to be "upgraded" as a maintainer:

• The proposed maintainer has the sponsorship of at least one other maintainer.
  • This sponsoring maintainer will create a proposal PR modifying the list of maintainers. (see proposal PR template.)
  • The proposed maintainer accepts the nomination and expresses a willingness to be a long-term (more than 6 month) committer by adding a comment in the proposal PR.
  • The PR will be communicated in all appropriate communication channels including at least besu-contributors channel on Hyperledger Discord, the mailing list and any maintainer/community call.
• Approval by at least 3 current maintainers within two weeks of the proposal or an absolute majority (half the total + 1) of current maintainers.
  • Maintainers will vote by approving the proposal PR.
• No veto raised by another maintainer within the voting timeframe.
  • All vetoes must be accompanied by a public explanation as a comment in the proposal PR.
  • The explanation of the veto must be reasonable and follow the Besu code of conduct.
  • A veto can be retracted, in that case the voting timeframe is reset and all approvals are removed.
  • It is bad form to veto, retract, and veto again.

The proposed maintainer becomes a maintainer either:

• when two weeks have passed without veto since the third approval of the proposal PR,
• or an absolute majority of maintainers approved the proposal PR.

In either case, no maintainer raised and stood by 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 two reporting quarters, 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.

As for adding a maintainer, the record and governance process for moving a maintainer to emeritus status is recorded using review approval in the 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 always already has the required significant contributions. There is no contribution prescription delay.

Proposal PR template

I propose to add [maintainer github handle] as a Besu project maintainer.

[maintainer github handle] contributed with many high quality commits:

- [list significant achievements]

Here are [their past contributions on Besu project](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/commits?author=[user github handle]).

Voting ends two weeks from today.

For more information on this process see the Becoming a Maintainer section in the MAINTAINERS.md file.