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Maintainer Governance

Risk-based governance and approval workflows for 1-person and multi-maintainer OSS.

Maintainer Governance

Governance models must scale sustainably according to project complexity and team size.

Model Principles

  • Risk-Based Controls: Controls scale with change impact rather than imposing arbitrary human overhead.
  • Transparent Decisions: Major architectural changes discussed openly in GitHub Issues and ADRs.
  • Sustainable Maintainership: Automated CI/CD and dependency bots minimize maintainer fatigue.

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