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# Decision making in the curl project
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A rough guide to how we make decisions and who does what.
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## BDFL
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This project was started by and has to some extent been pushed forward over
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the years with Daniel Stenberg as the driving force. It matches a standard
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BDFL (Benevolent Dictator For Life) style project.
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This setup has been used due to convenience and the fact that is has worked
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fine this far. It is not because someone thinks of it as a superior project
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leadership model. It will also only continue working as long as Daniel manages
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to listen in to what the project and the general user population wants and
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expects from us.
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## Legal entity
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There is no legal entity. The curl project is just a bunch of people scattered
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around the globe with the common goal to produce source code that creates
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great products.
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The copyrights in the project are owned by the individuals and organizations
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that wrote those parts of the code.
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## Decisions
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The curl project is not a democracy, but everyone is entitled to state their
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opinion and may argue for their sake within the community.
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All and any changes that have been done or will be done are eligible to bring
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up for discussion, to object to or to praise. Ideally, we find consensus for
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the appropriate way forward in any given situation or challenge.
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If there is no obvious consensus, a maintainer who's knowledgeable in the
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specific area will take an "executive" decision that they think is the right
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for the project.
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## Key roles
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### Maintainers
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A maintainer in the curl project is an individual who has been given
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permissions to push commits to one of the git repositories.
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Maintainers are free to push commits to the repositories at their own will.
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Maintainers are however expected to listen to feedback from users and any
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change that is non-trivial in size or nature *should* be brought to the
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project as a PR to allow others to comment/object before merge.
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### Former maintainers
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A maintainer who stops being active in the project will at some point get
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their push permissions removed. We do this for security reasons but also to
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make sure that we always have the list of maintainers as "the team that push
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stuff to curl".
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Getting push permissions removed is not a punishment. Everyone who ever worked
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on maintaining curl is considered a hero, for all time hereafter.
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### Security team members
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We have a security team. That's the team of people who are subscribed to the
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curl-security mailing list; the receivers of security reports from users and
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developers. This list of people will vary over time but should be skilled
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developers familiar with the curl project.
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The security team works best when it consists of a small set of active
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persons. We invite new members when the team seems to need it, and we also
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expect to retire security team members as they "drift off" from the project or
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just find themselves unable to perform their duties there.
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### Server admins
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We run a web server, a mailing list and more on the curl project's primary
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server. That physical machine is owned and run by Haxx. Daniel is the primary
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admin of all things curl related server stuff, but Björn Stenberg and Linus
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Feltzing serve as backup admins for when Daniel is gone or unable.
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The primary server is paid for by Haxx. The machine is physically located in a
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server bunker in Stockholm Sweden, operated by the company Portlane.
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The web site contents are served to the web via Fastly and Daniel is the
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primary curl contact with Fastly.
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### BDFL
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That's Daniel.
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README.netware MAIL-ETIQUETTE HTTP-COOKIES.md SECURITY-PROCESS.md RELEASE-PROCEDURE \
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CHECKSRC.md CMakeLists.txt README.md CIPHERS.md INSTALL.cmake README.cmake \
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