This page describes the governance model used by the Fortran-lang community. The Fortran-lang community is a volunteer-based effort and relies on its contributors' motivation, free time, and hard work. Administrators, maintainers, and contributors choose to participate and may choose to leave any time for any or no reason.
Any contribution to the Fortran-lang community must follow the code of conduct.
The administrators are responsible for keeping Fortran-lang operational. They have access to the following assets
- the Fortran-lang GitHub organization and can invite members, give write-access to projects, and create teams
- the Fortran-lang Discourse and can give moderator privileges as well as moderate the forum
- the fortran-lang.org domain
- the @fortranlang Twitter account (https://twitter.com/fortranlang)
- the Fortran-lang YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/Fortran%20Programming%20Language)
- the Fortran-lang mailing list (https://groups.io/g/fortran-lang)
Maintainers and contributors should contact the administrators in case any action for those assets is required.
Current administrators are
- Ondřej Čertík (@certik, ondrej@certik.us)
- Milan Curcic (@milancurcic, milancurcic@hey.com)
- Sebastian Ehlert (@awvwgk, awvwgk@disroot.org)
- Laurence Kedward (@lkedward, laurence.kedward@bristol.ac.uk)
- Giannis Nikiteas (@gnikit, giannis.nikiteas@gmail.com)
Occasionally, decisions need to be made about Fortran-lang projects, teams, communication, branding, funding, spending, public relations, and similar. This section describes the decision-making process for the Fortran-lang administrators team.
- The administrators meet periodically and on an as-needed basis to discuss any outstanding issues and make decisions on how to move forward. They will make their best effort to promptly discuss and decide via email, audio calls, and/or video calls.
- Whenever appropriate, the administrators will request feedback from the broader Fortran-lang community via GitHub and Fortran-lang Discourse. The administrators will make their best effort to consider all feedback received from the community while making a decision.
- The administrators will make their best good-faith effort to act and make decisions that are in the best long-term interest of the broader Fortran-lang community, Fortran-lang projects, and the Fortran language as a whole.
- The administrators will make their best good-faith effort to arrive to unanimous agreement on any major issue or decision that needs to be made.
- In the event in which the administrators, after extensive discussion, are unable to reach unanimous agreement but must take action to move forward, the administrators will vote and require 80% agreement to move on that decision.
- All administrators have equal voting power. For example, if there are five administrators, each has the voting power of 20%.
- The administrators commit to disclose and prevent any conflict of interest that may arise in the context of Fortran-lang receiving funds and allocating funds to sub-projects.
- The administrator team will have at least five members. If an administrator leaves the team for any reason, in which event the number of administrators would become less than five, the remaining administrators will make their best effort to replace the departing administrator.
- No single administrator will act on behalf of Fortran-lang without first discussing it with the administrators team.
The maintainers are responsible for organizing the core projects of Fortran-lang, like the package manager, the standard library, and the webpage. Maintainers are responsible for
- coordinating (larger) projects and steering long-term plans
- helping new contributors to get acquainted with the project and provide guidance for their first contribution
- guiding new reviewers to provide comments and feedback for code contributions in pull requests and patches
- keeping the issue tracker and project boards organized
- making releases and determining their content
Unless specially required, all discussions and activities of the maintainers will be public and made in collaboration with the community and contributors. Private communications or decisions made by the maintainers will be summarized to the community and contributors publicly after removing personal, private, or sensitive information, that should not be posted publicly on the internet.
Everybody is welcome to contribute to Fortran-lang and its projects. Providing and discussing ideas as well as developing concepts and designs are integral contributions to any project. All contributors can steer and add to the long-term vision of the Fortran-lang projects.
To the extent possible under law, the authors have waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to the Fortran-lang community governance document, as per the CC-0 public domain dedication.