Definitions of Roles

Maintainer

• A committer that is also an arbiter for other committers in the Github/Git repositories.
• May override merging criteria to merge/close a pull-request or to push/revert a commit.

Committer (previously Reviewer)

• May reject a pull-request, which prohibits merging. "Veto"
• May vote for an approval.
• (Requires merge privilege) May merge a pull-request if it has enough number of approval-votes from committers (2 or more).
• May propose new committers among well-known contributors and vote for new committers
• Vote for a committer removal.
• The ability of reject and merge may be limited to a few subdirectories.
• The list of reviewers and their subdirectories is at [.github/CODEOWNERS].

Contributor

• Anyone who has sent a pull-request, which is accepted and merged with the full procedures.

Note

We allow anyone to send and review pull-requests (although may be not allowed to vote), or to write an issue as long as they do no harm or break [CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md]