To create the most comprehensive, accessible, and trusted security scanning tool for the Stellar ecosystem through open collaboration and community-driven development.
- Security First: Every decision prioritizes the security of the Stellar ecosystem
- Open Collaboration: Transparent, inclusive, and community-driven development
- Quality Excellence: High standards for code, documentation, and user experience
- Education Focus: Empowering developers with knowledge and best practices
- Innovation: Encouraging creative solutions and new approaches
- Project Lead: Overall vision and strategic direction
- Technical Lead: Architecture decisions and technical standards
- Community Lead: Community engagement and contributor support
- Security Lead: Security research and vulnerability assessment
- Core Maintainers (3-5): Full project access, merge permissions
- Domain Maintainers (5-10): Specific area expertise, PR review rights
- Community Maintainers (unlimited): Issue triage, community support
- Active Contributors: Regular contributions, voting rights on features
- Casual Contributors: Occasional contributions, community participation
- New Contributors: Recently joined, learning and onboarding
- Simple Changes: Single maintainer approval
- Significant Changes: 2+ maintainer approval
- Architectural Changes: Core team consensus
- Breaking Changes: Community discussion + supermajority vote
- Standard Contributions: Automated based on guidelines
- Large Projects: Core team review + community input
- Strategic Initiatives: Community vote + core team approval
- Emergency Funding: Core team discretion with post-approval
- Code of Conduct: Community vote (2/3 majority)
- Governance Changes: Supermajority vote (3/4)
- Project Direction: Core team recommendation + community feedback
- Leadership Changes: Nomination process + community election
Responsibilities:
- Overall project vision and strategy
- Core team coordination
- External relationships and partnerships
- Final decision authority in deadlocks
- Budget and resource allocation
Requirements:
- Deep understanding of Stellar ecosystem
- Strong leadership and communication skills
- Technical credibility in security space
- Commitment to open source values
Responsibilities:
- Technical architecture and standards
- Code review guidelines and quality control
- Security best practices and vulnerability assessment
- Technical roadmap and milestone planning
- Performance and scalability oversight
Requirements:
- Expert-level Rust programming
- Security tool development experience
- System architecture knowledge
- Mentoring and teaching ability
Responsibilities:
- Community engagement and growth
- Contributor onboarding and support
- Conflict resolution and moderation
- Community events and initiatives
- Communication and documentation
Requirements:
- Community management experience
- Excellent communication skills
- Empathy and emotional intelligence
- Understanding of open source dynamics
Responsibilities:
- Security research direction
- Vulnerability assessment and classification
- Security best practices and guidelines
- Industry partnerships and collaboration
- Security incident response
Requirements:
- Smart contract security expertise
- Research and analytical skills
- Industry recognition and credibility
- Ethical hacking background
Responsibilities:
- Code review and quality control
- Issue triage and prioritization
- Contributor guidance and mentorship
- Documentation maintenance
- Community support
Requirements:
- Technical expertise in relevant domain
- Commitment to quality standards
- Good communication skills
- Regular participation
- Create GitHub issue with detailed proposal
- Include technical details, rationale, and alternatives
- Tag relevant maintainers and experts
- Open for community discussion
- Minimum 7 days for significant changes
- Technical review by maintainers
- Community feedback and input
- Iterative refinement based on feedback
- Simple changes: Single maintainer approval
- Significant changes: 2+ maintainer approval
- Major changes: Core team consensus
- Breaking changes: Community vote
- Assign to contributor or team
- Set timeline and milestones
- Regular progress updates
- Quality assurance and testing
- Verify eligibility requirements
- Assess technical feasibility
- Evaluate funding reasonableness
- Check alignment with project goals
- Open discussion period (3-5 days)
- Community feedback and concerns
- Adjustments based on input
- Transparency in decision-making
- Standard contributions: Automated approval
- Large projects: Core team review
- Strategic initiatives: Community vote
- Emergency needs: Core team discretion
- Initial payment upon approval
- Progress monitoring
- Final payment upon completion
- Impact assessment
- Proposal posted for community review
- Structured discussion period
- Multiple perspectives considered
- Questions and clarifications addressed
- Clear voting criteria and timeline
- Transparent vote counting
- Results published and explained
- Implementation planning
- Decision documented and communicated
- Implementation plan developed
- Progress updates provided
- Outcomes measured and reported
- Code quality and test coverage
- Security vulnerability detection rate
- Performance benchmarks
- User adoption and satisfaction
- Contributor growth and retention
- Community engagement and participation
- Diversity and inclusion metrics
- Knowledge sharing and collaboration
- Vulnerabilities prevented
- Developer education impact
- Ecosystem security improvement
- Industry recognition and adoption
- KPI performance assessment
- Goal progress evaluation
- Community feedback collection
- Strategy adjustment and planning
- Overall project impact assessment
- Leadership performance review
- Governance effectiveness evaluation
- Strategic planning for next year
- Security incident post-mortems
- Major feature release reviews
- Community health assessments
- Financial and funding reviews
- Public decision documentation
- Regular progress reports
- Financial transparency
- Open communication channels
- Regular community surveys
- Contributor feedback sessions
- User experience research
- Industry expert consultations
- Leadership removal procedures
- Maintainer performance reviews
- Community vote of no confidence
- Dispute resolution mechanisms
- Respect and dignity for all parties
- Focus on issues, not personalities
- Seek understanding and common ground
- Prioritize project health and community
- Direct communication between parties
- Mediation by community maintainer
- Documentation of issues and concerns
- Attempt at mutual understanding
- Escalation to core team
- Neutral third-party mediator if needed
- Structured discussion process
- Proposed solutions and compromises
- Community discussion and input
- Advisory board consultation
- Vote on resolution options
- Implementation of decision
- Code of conduct enforcement
- Temporary suspensions if necessary
- Permanent removal in extreme cases
- Appeals process available
- Different approaches to technical problems
- Architecture and design decisions
- Implementation strategies
- Quality and standards
- Communication breakdowns
- Behavioral problems
- Power dynamics
- Resource allocation
- Payment disagreements
- Work quality disputes
- Timeline conflicts
- Scope disagreements
- Regular review of governance effectiveness
- Community input on improvements
- Adaptation to project growth
- Best practice incorporation
- Streamline decision-making processes
- Improve communication channels
- Enhance transparency mechanisms
- Strengthen accountability systems
- Leadership development programs
- Mentorship and training initiatives
- Knowledge sharing platforms
- Recognition and reward systems
- Alignment with Stellar ecosystem goals
- Collaboration on security initiatives
- Resource sharing and support
- Joint community events
- Security research collaborations
- Tool integration partnerships
- Knowledge sharing initiatives
- Industry standard development
- Research collaborations
- Student involvement programs
- Knowledge exchange programs
- Joint publications and presentations
- Best practice sharing
- Tool interoperability
- Community event participation
- Mutual support initiatives
- Project Lead: project@stellar-security-scanner.io
- Technical Lead: tech@stellar-security-scanner.io
- Community Lead: community@stellar-security-scanner.io
- Security Lead: security@stellar-security-scanner.io
- Discord: Primary community discussion
- GitHub: Technical discussions and issues
- Discussions: In-depth technical conversations
- Email: Formal communications and inquiries
- Weekly: Core team sync
- Bi-weekly: Maintainer meeting
- Monthly: Community town hall
- Quarterly: Strategic planning session
This governance framework is designed to evolve with the project and community. We welcome feedback and suggestions for improvement. 🏛️