This repository contains the official Policies and Procedures (P&P) of the Open Source Robotics Alliance, an initiative of the Open Source Robotics Foundation, Inc. The P&P documents are published to the OSRA website.
Each Markdown document is one P&P document, with a specific scope. Example scopes are the Technical Governance Committee (TGC), a single Project, and a sub-committee of the TGC.
The versions of the P&P documents in the main branch are the most-recently-ratified versions.
Proposed revisions are kept in branches of this repository (or forks, if being proposed by people outside the OSRF).
These branches must go through a pull request to be merged into main, and one requirement for merging a pull request is that the revisions are ratified by the appropriate body of the OSRF or OSRA.
The appropriate bodies are:
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TGC P&P: Revisions must be approved by the TGC and ratified by the OSRF Board of Directors (including proxy by officers of the OSRF).
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Project Charters: Revisions must be ratified by the TGC. New charters must be approved by the TGC and ratified by the OSRF Board of Directors.
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Project repository lists: Revisions must be ratified by the Project Management Committee for the relevant Project.
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Special Interest Group Charters: Revisions and new Charters must be ratified by the TGC.
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Technical Committee Charters: Revisions and new Charters must be ratified by the TGC.
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Working Group Charters: Revisions and new Charters must be ratified by the Project Management Committee for the relevant Project.
To propose changes to one of the P&P documents, fork this repository, make your proposed changes, open a pull request, and then have the proposed changes brought before the appropriate body. If you are not a member of the appropriate body, you should speak to your representative on that body to have your proposed changes added to the agenda of a future meeting. For most people, this will be the Sponsoring Individuals Representative on either a PMC or the TGC.