Community Membership

Volcano Community Membership

Note: We regularly update this document with the latest information and incorporate feedback from the Volcano community.

This document gives a brief overview of the Volcano community roles and the requirements and responsibilities associated with them.

Role	Requirements	Responsibilities	Privileges
Member	Sponsored by 2 approvers, active in the community, has contributed to Volcano	Gets new contributors on board	Member of the Volcano GitHub organization
Approver	Sponsored by 2 maintainers, has extensive experience and knowledge of a particular domain, has actively contributed to code and review	Reviews and approves contributions from community members	Has write access to specific packages in relevant repositories
Maintainer	Sponsored by 2 owners, has shown good technical judgment in feature design/development and PR review	Release planning and feature development/maintenance	Has top-level write access to relevant repositories; name entry in the Maintainers file of the repositories
Owner	Sponsored by 3 owners, has proven ability to lead the entire Volcano project	Drives the overall technical roadmap of the project and sets priorities of activities in release planning	Has admin access to the Volcano GitHub organization

Note: All Volcano community members must follow the Volcano Code of Conduct.

Member

Members are active participants in the community. They contribute by authoring PRs, reviewing issues/PRs or participating in community discussions on slack/mailing list.

Requirements

Sponsored by 2 approvers
Has enabled two-factor authentication for GitHub account
Actively contributed to the community. Contributions include but are not limited to:
- Authoring PRs
- Reviewing issues/PRs authored by other community members
- Participating in community discussions on slack/mailing list
- Attending Volcano community meetings

Responsibilities and privileges

Becomes a member of the Volcano GitHub organization
Can be assigned issues and PRs and can work on review requests from community members
Assigns issues and PRs
Gets new contributors on board
Guides new contributors on maintaining docs/files
Helps/Motivates new members in contributing to Volcano

Approver

Approvers are active members who have extensive experience and knowledge of a particular domain. They have actively participated in the issue/PR reviews and have identified noteworthy issues during the reviews.

Requirements

Sponsored by 2 maintainers
Has been a member for at least 2 months
Has reviewed a large number of PRs
Has good codebase knowledge

Responsibilities and privileges

Reviews code to maintain/improve code quality
Acknowledges and works on review requests from community members
Approves code contributions for acceptance related to a particular domain
Has write access to specific packages inside a repository, enforced via bot
Continues to contribute and guide other community members to contribute to Volcano

Maintainer

Maintainers are approvers who have shown good technical judgment in feature design/development. They can grasp the big picture of the project and features in the project.

Requirements

Sponsored by 2 owners
Has been an approver for at least 2 months
Is nominated by a project owner
Has good technical judgment in feature design/development

Responsibilities and privileges

Participates in release planning
Maintains project code quality
Ensures the forward/backword compatibility of APIs based on feature graduation criteria
Analyzes and proposes new features/enhancements in the Volcano project
Demonstrates sound technical judgment
Mentors contributors and approvers
Has top-level write access to relevant repositories (including the permission to click the Merge PR button when manual check-in is necessary)
Name entry in the Maintainers file of the repositories
Participates & drives design/development of multiple features

Owner

Owners are maintainers who have helped lead the project. They have deep understanding of Volcano and the related domains, and have facilitated major decision making in issues such as release planning.

Requirements

Sponsored by 3 owners
Has been a maintainer for at least 2 months
Is nominated by a project owner
Is not opposed by any project owner
Has helped lead the entire project

Responsibilities and privileges

Makes overall technical decisions of the project
Makes the overall technical roadmap of the project
Sets priorities for release planning
Guides and mentors all other community members
Ensures all community members follow the Code of Conduct
Makes sure all PRs are properly reviewed and merged, despite the admin access to all repositories
May obtain admin access to relevant repositories as required
Participates & drives design/development of multiple features

Note: These roles are applicable only to the Volcano Github organization and repositories. We are currently developing a formal process for review and acceptance into these roles.