The etcd community adheres to the following principles:
- Open: etcd is open source.
- Welcoming and respectful: See Code of Conduct.
- Transparent and accessible: Changes to the etcd code repository and CNCF related activities (e.g. level, involvement, etc) are done in public.
- Merit: Ideas and contributions are accepted according to their technical merit for the betterment of the project. For specific guidance on practical contribution steps please see contributor guide guide.
Etcd project roles along with their requirements and responsibilities are defined in community membership.
Decisions are built on consensus between maintainers publicly. Proposals and ideas
can either be submitted for agreement via a GitHub issue or PR, or by sending an email
to etcd-maintainers@googlegroups.com.
In general, we prefer that technical issues and maintainer membership are amicably
worked out between the persons involved. However, any technical dispute that has
reached an impasse with a subset of the community, any contributor may open a GitHub
issue or PR or send an email to etcd-maintainers@googlegroups.com. If the
maintainers themselves cannot decide an issue, the issue will be resolved by a
supermajority of the maintainers with a fallback on lazy consensus after three business
weeks inactive voting period and as long as two maintainers are on board.
Changes in project governance could be initiated by opening a GitHub PR.