This project aims to be governed in a transparent, accessible way for the benefit of the community. All participation in this project is open and not bound to corporate affilation. Participants are bound to the project's Code of Conduct.
The contributor role is the starting role for anyone participating in the project and wishing to contribute code.
- Review the Contribution Guidelines to ensure your contribution is inline with the project's coding and styling guidelines.
- Submit your code as a PR with the appropriate DCO signoff
- Have your submission approved by the committer(s) and merged into the codebase.
A committer is a contributor who has the additional privilege to commit code directly to the repository, but also the duty of being a responsible leader in the community.
Current committers (in alphabetical order):
- Christoph Auer
- Cesar Berrospi Ramis
- Kasper Dinkla
- Michele Dolfi
- Yusik Kim
- Viktor Kuropiatnyk
- Nikos Livathinos
- Maxim Lysak
- Ahmed Nassar
- Matteo Omenetti
- Peter Staar
- Rafael Teixeira de Lima
- Panos Vagenas
- Anil Vishnoi
A contributor can be nominated for the committer role by a committer. There will be a vote by the TSC members. While it is expected that most votes will be unanimous, a two-thirds majority of the cast votes is enough.
A repository maintainer is a committer who has the additional priviledge to actually merge pull requests into the main branch of the particular repository.
Each Docling repository has a list of maintainers in its MAINTAINERS.md page.
A committer can be nominated for becoming maintainer of a given repository by another committer. There will be a vote by the TSC members. While it is expected that most votes will be unanimous, a two-thirds majority of the cast votes is enough.
The Techincal Steering Committee (TSC) members are committers who have additional responsibilities to ensure the smooth running of the project. TSC members are expected to participate in strategic planning, and approve changes to the governance model. The purpose of the TSC is to ensure a smooth progress from the big-picture perspective.
Current TSC members (in alphabetical order):
One of the TSC members is the chairperson of the TSC and should ensure the smooth running of the TSC. They do not have more voting power than other TSC members.
Currently Peter Staar is the chairperson of the TSC.
At the moment, the TSC is not open for new members. This is expected to change after the first 24 months.
Project releases will occur on a scheduled basis as agreed by the committers.
This project, just like all open source, is a global community. In addition to the Code of Conduct, this project will:
- Keep all communication on open channels (mailing list, forums, chat).
- Be respectful of time and language differences between community members (such as scheduling meetings, email/issue responsiveness, etc).
- Ensure tools are able to be used by community members regardless of their region.
If you have concerns about communication challenges for this project, please contact the committers.