Merge pull request #476 from nikomatsakis/governance-2019-12-10

governance wg status update

Author: nikomatsakis

posts/inside-rust/2019-12-03-governance-wg-meeting.md

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 title: "Governance Working Group Update"
 author: Nell Shamrell-Harrington
-team: The Governance WG <https://github.com/rust-lang/wg-governance>
+team: the Governance WG <https://github.com/rust-lang/wg-governance>
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 Hello everyone! Two weeks ago the governance working group met. Here are the large issues we discussed and information on our next meeting.

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+layout: post
+title: "Governance Working Group Update"
+author: Niko Matsakis
+team: the Governance WG <https://github.com/rust-lang/wg-governance>
+---
+
+Hello everyone! The governance working group met last week to discuss
+writing out a policy for access privileges on our Github
+repositories. This blog post summarizes that meeting and also
+announces the topic of our next meeting, which takes place on Tuesday,
+December 17, 2019 ([calendar event]).
+
+[calendar event]: https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MnNuZDc0NzkzYTBkcDNzY2FkbWgzNjk3a2hfMjAxOTEyMTdUMjIwMDAwWiBtb3ppbGxhLmNvbV85YzZmYzNsNmJoZzhiY3A4Y2FmcnZrM29mNEBn&tmsrc=mozilla.com_9c6fc3l6bhg8bcp8cafrvk3of4%40group.calendar.google.com&scp=ALL
+
+Also, this week we have a [video recording
+available](https://youtu.be/CyYwretwM8E). (We're going to generally
+try and record meetings when possible.)
+
+## Next meeting
+
+The next meeting will be discussing project groups and their integration into
+the lang team. This is building on a few different posts and ideas:
+
+* XAMPPRocky's draft RFC [clarifying our terminology around working groups](https://github.com/rust-lang/wg-governance/blob/master/draft-rfcs/working-group-terminology.md)
+* My [Shepherds 3.0](http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2019/09/11/aic-shepherds-3-0/) blog post
+* The embedded working group's [shepherded projects RFC](https://github.com/rust-embedded/wg/pull/378)
+* My recent blog post about [an improved pre-RFC
+  process](http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2019/12/03/aic-improving-the-pre-rfc-process/)
+
+## Access rights policy
+
+I'll summarize our conclusions here. Consult the [wg-governance]
+repository to find more [detailed minutes] from our conversation.
+The key conclusions were:
+
+* Where possible, we should stick to a single org ([`rust-lang`]).
+    * In particular, team-specific organizations like
+      [`rust-dev-tools`] and [`rust-community`] ought to be merged
+      into [`rust-lang`].
+    * Using a single organization makes it much easier to administrate.
+    * Note that we've already deprecated the [`rust-lang-nursery`] org
+* As an exception, we will for now continue having each domain working group
+  operate outside of its own org (e.g., [`rust-embedded`]). Those orgs
+  are quite active and have a diverse membership and we don't want to
+  disturb that for now.
+    * However, it would be good if each such org added the `rust-lang-owner` bot
+      as an owner, so that the rust infra team has access.
+* For repositories, we will avoid giving access to individuals, and instead try to
+  give access only to entities (teams, working groups, etc) that are created and
+  managed by the Rust [team] repository.
+    * In general, it is not recommended to give owner or admin access; write access suffices.
+    * (Unfortunately, read and triage access is often not sufficient for us.)
+
+We also enumerated a number of [action items] to putting this policy
+in to practice. We'll be revisiting the topic periodically to check on
+progress.
+
+[wg-governance]: https://github.com/rust-lang/wg-governance/
+[detailed minutes]: https://github.com/rust-lang/wg-governance/blob/master/minutes/2019.12.03.md
+[wg-governance]: https://github.com/rust-lang/wg-governance/
+[`rust-dev-tools`]: https://github.com/rust-dev-tools/
+[`rust-community`]: https://github.com/rust-community/
+[`rust-lang`]: https://github.com/rust-community/
+[`rust-lang-nursery`]: https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/
+[`rust-embedded`]: https://github.com/rust-embedded/wg
+[team]: https://github.com/rust-lang/team
+[action items]: https://github.com/rust-lang/wg-governance/blob/master/minutes/2019.12.03.md#action-items