Clowder follows a typical open source governance model with a group of committers having final say to what ends up in the master/develop branches and a BDFL with final say on disputes and arguments within the community.

If you want to become a contributor please review and follow the following instructions CONTRIBUTING.md.

The following roles exist:

• Contributor
  • Makes contributions to the project.
  • See CONTRIBUTING.md to learn how to become one. Please follow the workflow describe in that document. Thank you.
• Committer
  • Knows the code very well and has made substantial contributions to the project.
  • Helps define how specific features are implemented.
  • Has write permission to develop and master branch.
  • A unanimous vote by current committers is required for a contributor to become a committer.
• Benevolent Dictator for Life (BDFL)
  • Retains the final say in disputes or arguments within the community.
  • Manages releases. 
  • Helps define long term direction and software architecture.

Current list of active members follows. Full list available in CONTRIBUTORS.md.

Benevolent Dictator for Life

• Luigi Marini is the Benevolent Dictator for Life (BDFL).

Committers

• Luigi Marini
• Rob Kooper
• Max Burnette

Contributors - Luigi Marini - needs updated - how can we keep this list current?

• Bing Zhang
• Chen Wang
• Chris Navarro
• Gregory Jansen
• Jim Myers
• Jong Lee
• Kenton McHenry
• Max Burnette
• Michal Ondrejcek
• Mike Lambert
• Sandeep Puthanveetil Satheesan
• Todd Nicholson

Retired Contributors

• Ashwini Vaidya
• Avinash Kumar
• Brock Angelo
• Constantinos Sophocleous
• Inna Zharnitsky
• Mario Felarca
• Nicholas Tenczar
• Nishant Nayudu
• Rui Liu
• Smruti Padhy
• Theerasit Issaranon
• Varun Kethineedi
• Ward Poelmans
• Will Hennessy
• Winston Jansz
• Xiaocheng Yuan
• Yibo Guo
• Indira Gutierrez
• Yan Zhao
• Michelle Pitcel