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Fastify Project Governance

Lead Maintainers

Fastify Lead Maintainers are the organization owners. They are the only members of the @fastify/leads team. The Lead Maintainers are the curator of the Fastify project and their key responsibility is to issue releases of Fastify and its dependencies. They manage the Open Collective funds and are responsible for approving expenses and invoices.

Collaborators

Fastify Collaborators maintain the projects of the Fastify organization.

They are split into the following teams:

Team Responsibility Repository
@fastify/leads Fastify Lead Maintainers GitHub organization owners
@fastify/core Fastify Core development fastify, fast-json-stringify, light-my-request, fastify-plugin, middie
@fastify/plugins Build, maintain and release Fastify plugins All plugins repositories
@fastify/benchmarks Build and maintain our benchmarks suite benchmarks
@fastify/docs-chinese Translate the Fastify documentation in Chinese docs-chinese

Every member of the org is also part of @fastify/fastify.

Collaborators have:

  • Commit access to the projects repository of the team they belong
  • Grant to release new versions of the project

Both Collaborators and non-Collaborators may propose changes to the source code of the projects of the organization. The mechanism to propose such a change is a GitHub pull request. Collaborators review and merge (land) pull requests following the CONTRIBUTING guidelines.

Collaborator activities

  • Helping users and novice contributors
  • Contributing code and documentation changes that improve the project
  • Reviewing and commenting on issues and pull requests
  • Participation in working groups
  • Merging pull requests
  • Release plugins

After two years of inactivity, the Lead Maintainers can remove inactive Collaborators or provide them with Past Collaborators status. Past Collaborators may request that the Lead Maintainers restore them to active status.

Great Contributors

Great contributors on a specific area in the Fastify ecosystem will be invited to join this group by Lead Maintainers. This group has the same permissions of a contributor.

Collaborator nominations

Individuals making significant and valuable contributions to the project may be a candidate to join the Fastify organization.

A Collaborator needs to open a private team discussion on GitHub and list the candidates they want to sponsor with a link to the user's contributions. For example:

  • Activities in the Fastify organization [USERNAME](https://github.com/search?q=author:USERNAME+org:fastify)

Otherwise, a Contributor may self-apply if they believe they meet the above criteria by reaching out to a Lead Maintainer privately with the links to their valuable contributions. The Lead Maintainers will reply to the Contributor and will decide if candidate it to be made a collaborator.

The consensus to grant a new candidate Collaborator status is reached when:

  • at least one of the Lead Maintainers approve
  • at least two of the Team Members approve

After these conditions are satisfied, the onboarding process may start.

Lead Maintainers nominations

A Team Member may be promoted to a Lead Maintainers only through nomination by a Lead maintainer and with agreement from the rest of Lead Maintainers.

Consensus seeking process

The Fastify organization follows a Consensus Seeking decision-making model.