The basic principle is that decisions are based on consensus. If this decision making process takes too long or a decision is required, the Technical Steering committee has the authority to make a decision.
The Technical Steering Committee (TSC) is responsible for:
- General ambitions, objectives and goals of this project
- Guidelines and procedures and tool selection
- Architectural and (development) infrastructure choices
- Raise subjects/issues that are important for the direction/development of this project
The TSC consists of the following members:
- Jonas van den Bogaard
- Jan Maarten van Doorn
- Frederik Stoel
- Daan van Es (chair)
- Maxime Fortin
- Bart Pleiter
Any community member or Contributor can ask that something be reviewed by the TSC by contacting the TSC at openstef@lfenergy.org.
Maintainers are responsible for maintaining parts of the code-base. Maintainers have the following responsibilities
- Coordinate development activity
- Make sure code/documentation reviews are being done
- Coordinate pull-requests
- Coordinate bug follow-ups
- Coordinate questions
- In case of long discussions or arguments, maintainers or other can request a community council decision.
The current maintainers of this project are:
- Daan van Es
- Jan Maarten van Doorn
- Bart Pleiter
- Marnix van Lieshout
- Egor Dmitriev
- Lars Schilders
Any community member or Contributor can ask a question or raise a issue to the maintainers by logging a GitHub issue.
Contributors include anyone in the technical community that contributes code, documentation, or other technical artifacts to the project.
Anyone can become a contributor. There is no expectation of commitment to the project, no specific skill requirements and no selection process. To become a contributor, a community member simply has to perform one or more actions that are beneficial to the project.
Our gratitude goes to the following all-time top contributors:
- Jan Maarten van Doorn
- Frank Kreuwel
- Bram Harmsen
- David Swinkels
- Enrico Schmitz
- Egor Dmitriev
- Martijn Cazemier
- Benoit Hardier
- Bart Pleiter
- Charlotte Cambier van Nooten