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From: David Hoese <david.hoese@ssec.wisc.edu>
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2020 19:34:10 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add Pytroll governance document

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+# Pytroll Governance
+
+## Summary
+
+This document formalizes the governance process for software projects under
+the Pytroll organization's umbrella. Anyone wishing to participate in the work
+done by the Pytroll community, whether it be software development, workshops,
+or any other method of community engagement, may do so. How decisions are
+made for individual projects as well as the Pytroll community in general are
+described below. 
+
+## Roles and Responsibilities
+
+### The Community
+
+TODO
+
+### Contributors
+
+TODO
+TODO: Create a separate section for people between basic contributor and core developer?
+
+### Core Project Developers
+
+TODO
+
+### Steering Council
+
+TODO
+TODO: groups.io email?
+
+## Decision Making Process
+
+TODO: Where communication takes place (slack, github issues, github pull requests)
+TODO: Consensus-seeking, starts with core devs, moves to steering council after that
+
+Decisions for individual projects and the overall community including the
+following cases are made according to the rules described below:
+
+* Changes to core project developers or steering council membership: TODO
+
+* Adding projects to or removing projects from the Pytroll organization: TODO
+
+* Minor documentation changes: TODO (1 core, lazy consensus)
+
+* Code changes and major documentation changes:
+  TODO (2 core, may include the contributor, lazy consensus)
+
+* Changes to API principles and backwards incompatible changes:
+  TODO (2 core, not including the contributor)
+
+* Changes to this governance model, the pytroll manifesto, code of conduct,
+  or pytroll coding guidelines: (steering council - simple majority)
+
+## Copyright
+
+This document is based on the
+[scikit-image governance document](https://scikit-image.org/docs/dev/skips/1-governance.html)
+and is placed in the public domain.