Governance Charter

Last update: July 2023

Overview

This document describes the process for the Keptn Governance Committee. It describes the formation of the initial governance committee and its core responsibilities. This includes its governance processes and processes to reform itself as necessary.

Governance Committee Scope

The Governance Committee has a set of rights and responsibilities, including the following:

Charter for Technical Committee. Define, evolve, and defend a Code of Conduct, which must include a neutral, unbiased process for resolving conflicts. Define and evolve project governance structures and policies, including how contributors become committers/maintainers, approvers, reviewers, members, etc. Manage and organize the election process. Logo/landing page/marketing. Making a final decision if a consensus cannot be reached (see Decision Making) Maintain relationships with the CNCF. For instance, creating documents describing the project Define, evolve, and defend the vision, values, mission, and scope of the project - to establish and maintain Keptn. Decide how and when official releases of Keptn artifacts are made and what they include. Establish processes regarding, and provide a final escalation path for any contested Keptn-related decision. Establish processes regarding other project resources/assets, including artifact repositories, build and test infrastructure, websites and their domains, blogs, social media accounts, etc. Request funds and other support from the CNCF (e.g. marketing, press, etc.). Delegate appropriate authority to trusted individuals. This work is to be handled by the Governance Committee or delegated to other project groups like the Technical Committee.

Governance Committee Members

The following Governance Committee’s term goes from December 1st 2022 until November 30th 2023. You can find the election process detailed here.

Alois Reitbauer

Ana Margarita Medina

Technical Committee (TC)

TC Members

@thisthat @bradmccoydev @thschue

TC Charter

Community membership levels

Member, Approver, Maintainer, Technical Committee Member, Governance Committee Member, Emeritus. These roles are defined below.

See Community membership for additional information.