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Resolution for minimal SIG governance 

We have been operating SIGs for some time now with a very loose
governance model. We took this approach on purpose to give folks
space and opportunity to decide what they believed constituted
a SIG in hopes of learning how we can apply SIGs to our community
needs.

However at this point there is some confusion and concern regarding
SIG governance. Since SIGs explicitly do not sit below any existing
governance structure, there is no default solution to fall back on.
We need to define a clear way to address issues before any conflict
arises. As was the case elsewhere, we expect the mere existence of
a clear decision-making structure to prevent most conflicts from
happening.

This resolution proposes a minimal, simple governance model to
address such cases, introducing a SIGs admin group. The group
is initially formed of the Meta SIG co-leads: Melvin Hillsman
as UC representative and Thierry Carrez as TC representative.
The committees are of course free to choose new members whenever
they see fit.

A similar resolution was proposed to the User Committee, which
approved it:

http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/uc/2018/uc.2018-03-12-14.05.log.html#l-74

Change-Id: Ibc2336980739db38f64a42b8ba2adeacff000a13
Co-Authored-By: Melvin Hillsman <mrhillsman@gmail.com>
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2018-03-19 SIG Governance
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OpenStack SIGs need a minimal governance structure to make final calls in
case conflicts between SIGs or within the leadership of a given SIG cannot
be solved at the SIG level.
This resolution states that such conflicts should be escalated to the
**SIG admins** group for resolution.
The **SIG admins** group is formed of one User Committee representative and
one Technical Committee representative. In case the two SIG admins disagree
on the resolution of the conflict, the OpenStack Foundation Executive Director
will be asked to break the tie.
NB: the SIG admins group also has +2A rights on the governance-sigs repository
(source of the `SIG governance website`_), and therefore finally approves
new SIG submissions.
.. _SIG governance website: https://governance.openstack.org/sigs/