maintain.md

# IEEE OPEN SOURCE MAINTAINERS MANUAL

The following manual provides requirements and expectations for all users of the IEEE Open Source Platform. 

All users of the IEEE Platform are granted the right to be maintainers of projects within their own username namespace, which include personal projects and personal forks of projects. As such, whether you are acting as a maintainer on a personal project or you have been granted the role of maintainer or contributor to an Official IEEE Open Source Project, you must follow the rules, requirements, and expectations outlined in this manual. 

The Maintainers Manual open source project is organized into requirements, recommendations, and examples. Requirements are primarily outlined in the following document. Recommendations consist of templates you can used as a basis to help you meet the requirements. And examples relate to good ideas and practices that may or may not tie into any requirements or expectations. 

## Conduct

All articipants of IEEE Open Source Projects are expected to demonstrate respect 
and courtesy toward each other. All maintainers shall act in accordance with the 
[IEEE Code of Conduct](https://www.ieee.org/about/ieee_code_of_conduct.pdf) and 
encourage all other partcipants in the projects they maintain to do the same. 

In addition, with regard to the following referenced section of the 
IEEE Policies document, any given requirements or recommendation that applies 
to an IEEE Member shall be understood to apply equally to an 
IEEE Open Source Project Maintainer. 

* Definitions of Bullying, Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation. 
* IEEE Code of Ethics (§7.8)
* Civility Policy, nondiscrimintation (§9.25)
* IEEE Policy Against Discrimination and Harassment (9.26)


## Organization of Projects and Materials 

The IEEE Open Source Platform consists of the code and document
repositories, license repositories, communication forums, project
management systems, and related administrative and end-user tools
maintained by IEEE for the purpose of hosting Open Source projects
together with the associated governance mechanisms, support
mechanisms, and other services offered to participants, users, and
consumers of Open Source projects.

An open source project may oranize material and conduct business
across various parts of the IEEE Open Source Platform.

An IEEE Open Source Project must provide a single URL that can be
considered as the official homepage of the project. For example, this
could be the link to a project page on opensource.ieee.org.

### Homepage

On the IEEE Open Source Project Homepage, the following information must be provided (e.g., in a repo's READEME.md file) the following information:

* Project name
* Any important status concerns prominantly displayed (e.g., a notice that it is unmaintained or archived, etc)
* A short description of how the project is organized
* Project license and links to appropriate CLAs
* How to contribute (such as a link to a CONTRIBUTING file)
* Project leadership

### Repository

Each open source project area that makes use of a git repository shall have the following files in any   

* README  - Project name, short description, license and CLA info, 
* LICENSE - The official license of the project
* NOTICES - Any additional appropriate legal notices that must be included
* AUTHORS - A list of copyright holders
* CONTRIBUTORS - A list of contributors 
* CONTRIBUTING (Governance and Code-of-Conduct)  - Rules for contributing, may be split into a separete GOVERNANCE document

### Appropriate legal notices

Following best practices, files should contain a copyright and license notice. 

## Responsibilities of Maintainers and Committers

A maintainer of an IEEE Open Source Project shall have the following
responsibilities:

* Ensuring, according to this manual, that all appropriate files,
  documentation, and notices are in place for their Project on the
  IEEE Open Source Platform.

* Adhering to the governance rules established by the project IEEE Open Source Project

* Responding to communication and notificatoins on the IEEE Open
  Source Platform in a timely manner, as well as communication and
  requests from the IEEE Open Source Lead, and the Open Source
  Community Manager either through the platform or via another
  commuincations channel.

## Stepping Down

If you’re the maintainer of an IEEE Open Source Project and you have decided
to step-down, please inform the IEEE Staff by either sending an email to 
contrib@ieee.org stating the name of the project and the date you are planning 
to step down, and any suggestion or infomration you may have as to who should 
become the new maintainer.  The appointment of a new maintainer needs the 
approval of Leader(s) of the project.

## Security and Critical vulnerabilities

If a project's lead or maintainer, the Open Source Community Manager, or the Open Source Committee decide that a given project on the IEEE Open Source Platform needs to follow a seucity process for handling security reports and CVEs, then the requirements provided in [SECURITY/README.md](SECURITY/README.md) shall be followed and the creation of a SECURITY.md file shall be provided in the top-most level of your project's repository directory structure. A recommended [SECURITY.md](SECURITY/SECURITY.md) file has been provided for you. 

If it is not determined that your project requires a formal security reporting process, then by default, a security bug can be treated as any other issue or bug filed against your project. 

## Communication

## Naming, Branding, Trademark, and Tradename 

IEEE Policy on Trademark applies to IEEE Open Source Projects. Please direct all questions or concerns to the IEEE Open Source Community Manager. 

## Archiving 

* How and when to move a project to an archived project

## Version

Informatoin for IEEE Open Source Project maintainers. DRAFT

Copyright 2019, The Maintainers Manual AUTHORS (see AUTHORS file)

The IEEE Open Source Maintainers Manual is licensed to you under the
terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0. You may obtain a copy of the
License at

  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
implied.  See the License for the specific language governing
permissions and limitations under the License.


## About This Document

***In accordance with the Open Source Committee Operations Manual, all
IEEE Open Source Project Maintainers shall follow the requirements set
forth.***

This manual contains guidelines, advice, and requirements of interest
to anyone contributing to or participating in an IEEE Open Source
Project.

We welcome your help in improving this manual. You can file an issue
or become a contributor (see CONTRIBUTE) to this open source project,
which is located at <https://opensource.ieee.org/oscom/maintain>.

All maintainers of IEEE Open Source Projects will be notified when new 
official releases of this manual are released. A version history of all changes 
between official releases of this document within the repository on the open 
source project. 

## Getting Help
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- Contact IEEE Open Source Community Manager
- Alternative contact (e.g., what they need to make a complaint about the OSCM).