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Inclusive Leadership - Maintainer Contributions

Overall Project Goal: Project Goal: An increase % in contribution typically done by project maintainers (pull request review, responding to, and trying to replicate issues).

(Principle #1) Community/project leadership should be setup for regular review & renewal

  • Do you provide ways for people to provide feedback on those in this role already?
  • Are we clear about ways people can step up, and also step down if they feel burnt out? 
  • For those who step down, are there ways their contribution remains recognized?
  • Is there a very visible invitation for people to take on review of PRs, and issues?

(Principle #2) Leadership should be distributed

  • Is leadership/maintainer tasks distributed, or is there one person with the majority of influence?
  • Are there visibly diverse people in roles of influence? (age, language, timezone, gender identity)

(Principle #3) Leadership should be accountable

  • Are people already doing this work (staff or contributors) accountable to a set of responsbiltiies ?
  • Are their roles, and responsiblities publicly documented? 
  • Is it clear, how those roles will be held accountable, and by whom?

(Principle #4) Is our Governance setup to support and protect diverse participation?

  • Do you have a Code of Conduct
  • Is it enforced?
  • Do people know and trust that your CoC is enforced?

(Principle #5) Leadership should be consistent

  • Do we treat everyone in roles of influence equally?
  • Do we give less space to the loudest voices, native English speakers, or time-zones? Imagine the impact on a quieter person, non-native English speaker outside of North America

(Principle #6) Leadership should include Technical and non-technical experts

  • Maintainer-like roles require non-technical skill, including engagement of those opening issues, documentation and community engagement. Do you explicitly invite these skillsets to step up as well?