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Stella Ops Project Governance

Lazy Consensus • Maintainer Charter • Transparent Veto

Scope – applies to all repositories under
https://git.stella-ops.org/stella-ops/* unless a sub‑project overrides it with its own charter approved by the Core Maintainers.

1 · Decision‑making workflow 🗳️

Stage Default vote Timer
Docs / non‑code PR +1 48 h
Code / tests PR +1 7 × 24 h
Security‑sensitive / breaking API +1 + explicit security‑LGTM 7 × 24 h

Lazy‑consensus – silence = approval once the timer elapses.

  • Veto ‑1 must include a concrete concern and a path to resolution.
  • After 3 unresolved vetoes the PR escalates to a Maintainer Summit call.

2 · Maintainer approval thresholds 👥

Change class Approvals required Example
Trivial 0 Typos, comment fixes
Non‑trivial 2 Maintainers New API endpoint, feature flag
Security / breaking Lazy‑consensus + security‑LGTM JWT validation, crypto swap

Approval is recorded via Git forge review or a signed commit trailer
Signed-off-by: <maintainer>.

3 · Becoming (and staying) a Maintainer 🌱

  1. 3 + months of consistent, high‑quality contributions.
  2. Nomination by an existing Maintainer via issue.
  3. 7‑day vote – needs ≥ ⅔ majority “+1”.
  4. Sign MAINTAINER_AGREEMENT.md and enable 2FA.
  5. Inactivity > 6 months → automatic emeritus status (can be re‑activated).

4 · Release authority & provenance 🔏

  • Every tag is co‑signed by at least one Security Maintainer.
  • CI emits a signed SPDX SBOM + Cosign provenance.
  • Release cadence is fixed – see public Road‑map.
  • Security fixes may create out‑of‑band x.y.z‑hotfix tags.

5 · Escalation lanes 🚦

Situation Escalation
Technical deadlock Maintainer Summit (recorded & published)
Security bug Follow Security Policy
Code of Conduct violation See 12_CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md escalation ladder

6 · Contribution etiquette 🤝

  • Draft PRs early – CI linting & tests help you iterate.
  • “There are no stupid questions” – ask in Matrix #dev.
  • Keep commit messages in imperative mood (Fix typo, Add SBOM cache).
  • Run the pre‑commit hook locally before pushing.

7 · Licence reminder 📜

Stella Ops is AGPL‑3.0‑or‑later. By contributing you agree that your patches are released under the same licence.

Appendix A – Maintainer list 📇

(Generated via scripts/gen-maintainers.sh – edit the YAML, not this section directly.)

Handle Area Since
@alice Core scanner • Security 2025‑04
@bob UI • Docs 2025‑06