Re: [PATCH] doc: document the current project governance

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Antonin Delpeuch <antonin@delpeuch.eu> writes:

> Do you know who moderates the IRC channel and the Discord server? Is it 
> also the PLC?

No and I do not know.

>>> +=== Project Leadership Committee
>>> +
>>> +The Project Leadership Committee (PLC) liaises between the project
>>> +and the Software Freedom Conservancy, Git's fiscal sponsor.
>> We are a "member project" of SFC, which acts as our "fiscal sponsor"
>> for us, providing non-profit administrative, financial and legal
>> infrastructure.
> Is this a comment, or text that you would like to see part of the 
> document? I think it's a good idea to make the term "fiscal sponsor" 
> more precise as you did, as it's a confusing term for many people (who 
> might otherwise think that SFC funds the Git project).

Exactly.

> Thanks. I think it would be worth documenting who is able to add 
> subscribers to this list. I am assuming you are, but are you the only one?

You ask for membership for the security mailing list and access to
other resources necessary for the security related discussions and
reviews, and releases by asking <git-security@googlegroups.com>.
You will get a response for by somebody, then join the security
mailing list (or not).

I do not know if it is necessary to advertise anything beyond that
to the general public.

>>> +=== Localization maintainer
>>> +
>>> +Jiang Xin coordinates the localization of Git by maintaining https://github.com/git-l10n/git-po[git-po].
>>> +
>>> +NOTE: How would their successor be appointed?
>> Not limited to this, but there is in general no "appointing"
>> process.  If there becomes an open seat that needs to be filled,
>> it will stay vacant until somebody volunteers.
>
> Makes sense. Here again, I should have asked my question differently: 
> who is able to give the necessary permissions to a new localization 
> maintainer? Are you an "Owner" of the https://github.com/git-l10n org?
>
> Or would you just stop pulling localization changes from this repository 
> into your tree, and point it to another repository, where the new 
> localization maintainer would have the necessary permissions?

It is something to be decided when the time comes.

Jiang volunteered, set up a repository, and I respond to pull
requests from there.  When Jiang wants to hand it over to somebody
else, the successor may have to be somebody who are already well
known in the community around here that people trust, or perhaps
there is some effort for the successor to gain the necessary trust.
The successor may inherit the current repository or set up a new one
to be pulled from.