# GOVERNANCE

`lipdp` is developped as part of the anonymized (anonymized/anonymized) program.

anonymized/anonymized is this repository owner and the write rights manager.

These management rules are intended to be collaborative and all those involved in the project are invited to contribute to its improvement.

##	Functions

###	Governance committee

The governance committee is initially composed of anonymized members who contributed to the first version of `lipdp` and are the only contributors to the master branch.

The governance committee is responsible for the master branch that contains the code of the version of the library that is officially recognised.

These governance committee members are the only ones able to merge pull requests into this branch which from contributions branches.

The governance committee identifies among the contributors who by their merits can join the committee.

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###	Contributors

A contributor is anyone who comments any aspects relating to the project: comments on an issue or pull request, documentation, architecture, code and validation tests or anybody with a merged pull request.

All governance committee membres are contributors.

### Maintainers

All contributors with write rights (commit rigths) are maintainers.

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### Contributions

Contributions rules are defined and devopped in here: CONTRIBUTING.md
Contributions are submit on the dedicated banch `develop`.

Pull requests with major changes must be approved by at least by two members of governance committee.

Pull requests with minor changes must be approved by at least by one member of governance committee.
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### Moderators

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