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Expand Up @@ -6,13 +6,21 @@ The [OCI charter][charter] §5.b.viii tasks an OCI Project's maintainers (listed

This section describes generic rules and procedures for fulfilling that mandate.

## Motion locations

Motions involving security issues SHOULD be proposed and voted on as described [here](CONTRIBUTING.md#security-issues).
For motions which do not involve security issues:

* Projects which include specifications SHOULD propose motions and collect votes on the [`[email protected]`][dev-list] mailing list.
* Projects which do not include specifications SHOULD propose motions and collect votes on either the [`[email protected]`][dev-list] mailing list or on a pull-request in the project repository.

## Proposing a motion

A maintainer SHOULD propose a motion on the [email protected] mailing list (except [security issues](#security-issues)) with another maintainer as a co-sponsor.
A maintainer SHOULD propose a motion [in the proper location](#motion-locations) with another maintainer as a co-sponsor.

## Voting

Voting on a proposed motion SHOULD happen on the [email protected] mailing list (except [security issues](#security-issues)) with maintainers posting LGTM or REJECT.
Voting on a proposed motion SHOULD happen [in the proper location](#motion-locations) with maintainers posting LGTM or REJECT.
Maintainers MAY also explicitly not vote by posting ABSTAIN (which is useful to revert a previous vote).
Maintainers MAY post multiple times (e.g. as they revise their position based on feeback), but only their final post counts in the tally.
A proposed motion is adopted if two-thirds of votes cast, a quorum having voted, are in favor of the release.
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> [runtime-spec adopted]: Tag 0647920 as 1.0.0-rc (+6 -0 #3)

[charter]: https://www.opencontainers.org/about/governance
[dev-list]: https://groups.google.com/a/opencontainers.org/forum/#!forum/dev