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feat: first version of roles and tech lead nomination process #454

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  • Defines Roles in the TAG App Delivery
  • Defines the Tech Lead Nomination Process

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  • Define election process for co-chairs

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Thanks @thschue, I did a pass and proposed some clarifications.

Most significantly, I think we should extract out a common list of leadership criteria and apply it to Chairs, TLs and WG Chairs - those criteria should be tied mostly to contributions and participation in the group.


## Chair

The (normally three) Co-Chairs of the TAG App Delivery drive the CNCF community efforts of the TAGs domain.
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How about expressing this as "the TAG will have up to 3 chairs"? Best to be specific since folks will look to this as canonical in the future.

## Chair

The (normally three) Co-Chairs of the TAG App Delivery drive the CNCF community efforts of the TAGs domain.
Chairs are experienced leaders within the CNCF community with rooted expertise in the TAG area. Chairs serve a two-year term but may renew their term by submitting a follow-up application.
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Should we enumerate previous contributions expected of chairs? For example:

  • participated in some percentage of TAG meetings
  • wrote up a number of project reviews
  • contributed to end user papers
  • contributed to samples like podtato-head

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@joshgav: Please write a proposal for this section. In the past, chairs could nominate themselves if they were active in any way. I am not sure if restricting this will help us growing.

Co-Chairs are expected to:
* Manage the operations and governance of the group.
* Organize, host, plan and facilitate TAG meetings and events.
* Reporting to the CNCF TOC on the status of TAG work.
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s/Reporting/Report/

* Manage the operations and governance of the group.
* Organize, host, plan and facilitate TAG meetings and events.
* Reporting to the CNCF TOC on the status of TAG work.
* Encouraging community members to start projects and working groups.
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s/Encouraging/Encourage/


A technical lead (TL) expands the bandwidth of the leadership team in terms of covering technical areas, growing the community, organizing events or doing TAG communications.

Proposals must have Chair as an active sponsor and the agreement of the majority of the current leadership team (Chairs, Tech Leads & Liaisons). TLs are experienced contributors within the CNCF community with rooted expertise in the TAG area.
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Perhaps "Proposals for new Technical Leads must have a Chair...."


## Working Group Leads

A working group chairs (usually 3) are experienced contributors to the TAG that applies to lead along one or two others a working group.
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Perhaps - "Up to 3 chairs are appointed to lead each working group."

Should we define what we mean by "experienced"?

Working groups as community governance structure are defined in the [CNCF TAG](https://github.com/cncf/toc/blob/master/tags) folder.
TAG Chairs are responsible facilitating the working group applications and make sure that the process is done transparent, accessible and traceable for everyone.
At least one of the TAG chairs or Tech Leads serves as the working group sponsor and provides guidance to the working group leads.
Working group leads are signed off by the majority of the TAG Chairs and the TOC Liaisons.
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+1, don't need TOC approval for WG leaders

After a TAG Chair completes their term, they transition into the role of Emeritus Chair.
This role does not impose any obligations on the TAG, but it acknowledges their committed time and effort.
The role also lets them share information about their previous work and contributions to the TAG.
An Emeritus Chair retains the same rights/access as in their previous role.
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I lean to say emeritus chairs shouldn't retain admin permissions. There may be times when we need to remove access.

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What do you propose @joshgav? - WG Leads have 'write' access, TL's have 'maintain' and Chairs have 'admin'
Propose to drop to 'write' or 'maintain'?

review the nomination and justification to determine if enough intent and
commitment is present to move forward with an endorsement.

Nominees must:
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Do these criteria apply to Chairs too? Perhaps we should list them there as well.


Nominations must:

* come from someone other than the nominee
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I'm not sure this should be required - folks should be able to nominate themselves too. But I do believe they should be seconded by an existing leader.

@joshgav joshgav added tag-admin Admin triage requested. governance labels Oct 21, 2023
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joshgav commented Nov 5, 2023

Ping @thschue, are you still working on this?

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@thschue #671 has partly taken care of this, shall we keep this PR open or open a new one for the co-chair eletion process?

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thschue commented Aug 18, 2024

@lianmakesthings: I would close it and open up a new one for the chair elections.

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