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The OpenSCD project started by Omicron Electronics and contains contributions from Alliander, Transpower and more. It currently has no project charter like CoMPAS does. The idea is to limit the amount of governance as much as possible and create great software. By experience, we see that some guidelines need to be in place in order to be effective.
(DanM: How heavy do we want this to be? We could also look at something like the Contributor Covenant, Mozilla Community Participation Guidelines, the Rust Language Code of Conduct, and the FreeBSD Community Code of Conduct)
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Administrative rights for the github.com/openscd organisation have been with Jakob Vogelsang and Christian Dinkel from when the OpenSCD project was first published by OMICRON in 2020. As more parties have taken an interest in the project since then, we could set up something analogous to a technical steering committee with a representative from each contributing party (Alliander, OMICRON, TransPower, and others as they join) who meet monthly to make overarching organisation-wide decisions, appoint maintainers for individual repositories, and adopt new repositories into the organisation and who are given administrative rights for the GitHub @openscd organisation. Jakob and Christian would like to know what the other parties involved think of this idea.
Maintainer Repistory maintainer (Plugin Project Lead?):
Ultimate authority on a specific OpenSCD plugin. The maintainer is trusted to make decisions for a specific set of functionality bundled within a plugin.
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