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### Example: Commonly used Governance Levels
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Examples of common project governance levels are:
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These are governance levels that are commonly used when practicing InnerSource.
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- **Bug Reports and Issues Welcome**:
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Each of these levels adds more influence/karma to the contributing team.
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However each step also requires more transparency and shared communication resources between both teams.
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1. **Bug Reports and Issues Welcome**:
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- People outside the core development team may use the code.
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- They can submit feature requests and bug reports for things they would like to see changed.
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- aka **Readable Source**, **Shared Source**
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- **Contributions Welcome**:
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2. **Contributions Welcome**:
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- People outside the core development team may use the code.
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- They can also make modifications and submit them to the core team for inclusion.
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- aka **Guest Contributions**
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- **Shared Write Access**:
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3. **Shared Write Access**:
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- People outside of the core development team can get write access to the project.
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- The core development team may decide to give these outside contributors additional leverage in the strategic direction of the project
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- Related Pattern: [Trusted Committer](../2-structured/trusted-committer.md)
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- **Shared Ownership**:
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4. **Shared Ownership**:
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- Members of different teams (or even the entire teams) collaborate on the project as equal peers.
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- Everyone has the ability to merge code.
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- Everyone has an equal say on the project direction.
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- Everyone has an equal say in who else to add to this group.
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- aka **Distributed Ownership**, **Maintainers in Multiple Team**
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- Related Pattern: [Group Support](../2-structured/group-support.md)
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<img width="50%" src="../../assets/img/governance-levels/1.png" />
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<figure><img src="../../assets/img/governance-levels/1.png" alt="Bug Reports and Issues Welcome"><figcaption><p>Bug Reports and Issues Welcome</p></figcaption></figure>
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### Example: Different Ways of Promoting the Governance Levels
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- Use the chosen names of your governance levels within project documentation and contributing guides (see also [Standard Base Documentation](../2-structured/base-documentation.md)).

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