Project Rules

Membership

• The OpenWrt project has three membership roles: active members, inactive members, and non-members. There is no core developer group or specially privileged members.
• Members may voluntarily switch between active and inactive status at any time.
• If a member stops participating, any active member may request they move to inactive status. The request goes via email to that person with the openwrt-adm mailing list copied. After 30 days without response, or with their agreement, they transition to inactive status.
• Frequent contributors can become members through simple approval. Project members may nominate suitable candidates.

Commit access

• Active members can request commit access to all repositories.
• Inactive members’ commit credentials may be revoked, then restored upon returning to active status.

Voting

• All active members have voting rights and should exercise them liberally to maintain broad project consensus.
• Project changes require formal proposals sent to the openwrt-adm mailing list with a clear voting deadline and description. Simple approval is needed.
• All active members who participate in the new vote, or who voted in the past 6 months before the new vote was started, are considered active voters. If fewer than 3 votes occurred in the past 6 months, the last 3 votes determine active voters.
• Simple approval requires a two-thirds majority among participating members plus 50% approval from all active voters.
• Rule changes need a 75% majority from participants and 50% from active voters.
• Neutral votes count as half-approvals.
• All votes and decisions are made public on the project website.

Infrastructure

• Infrastructure should use FOSS, community-operated services to let members focus on development.
• Self-operated infrastructure requires at least three administrators to prevent lockout scenarios.
• Service administrators and responsibilities must be publicly documented.

Other rules

• The project does not provide individual email accounts under its domain, for privacy and equality reasons.
• Be nice to each other.

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