doc/governance: add proposed structure

This is Sage's summary of the Ceph leadership team discussions around
this topic. Still many details to be worked out, this is just one
concrete proposal as a basis for further discussion.

Signed-off-by: Josh Durgin <jdurgin@redhat.com>

diff --git a/doc/governance/index.rst b/doc/governance/index.rst
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..638820f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/governance/index.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+Ceph Governance
+---------------
+
+Key principles
+==============
+
+  * Decision-making is consensus-driven by those who show up.
+  * Leadership roles are defined primary by responsibility, not prestige or seniority.
+    * It is normal and healthy for these roles to be passed on to others
+  * The role of developers is ultimately to serve the users.
+
+Bodies
+------
+
+Ceph Executive Council
+======================
+
+  * [3 or 5] people
+  * selected by steering committee during leadership summit
+    * candidates self-nominate or are nominated by other members
+    * discussion of how roles/responsibilities may be delegated
+    * propose 1 or more council sets
+    * ranked-choice vote by steering committee
+  * 1 year term (i.e., a release cycle) (or staggered longer terms?)
+
+Responsibilities
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+ * arbiter in cases where decisions cannot be reached by consensus
+ * distribute key responsibilities amongst themselves or others
+ * ensure things get done
+
+Ceph Steering Committee
+=======================
+
+Membership
+^^^^^^^^^^
+
+ * senior developers, users, community members
+ * Target size: low 10s
+ * Existing CLT members are grandfathered in
+ * Members can be nominated and added/removed by existing members (2/3 majority)
+ * Term is normally 2 years, at which point they can be re-added or rotate out
+ * Membership reflected by a github group (should be on website,  docs, email list too)
+
+Responsibilities
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+ * Select executive council
+ * Amend governance model
+
+Team Leads
+==========
+
+Responsibilities
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+ * manage a component team in Ceph (e.g., RADOS, RGW, RBD, CephFS, Orchestrator, ...)
+ * Ensure PRs are reviewed and merged
+ * Run standups
+ * Bug triage, scrubs
+ * etc.
+
+Selected by the executive council, generally based on recommendation by team members and outgoing lead
+Encourage periodic rotation of lead responsibility among team members
+
+
+
+Meetings
+========
+
+Leadership weekly
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+ * weekly, virtual
+
+ * Component leads + executive council + any council or community members who choose to attend
+
+ * Tactical: this is where the work gets done (executive council wrangles developers, discuss tactial issues of the day)
+
+ * Open meeting: anyone can join and raise discussion items
+
+
+Leadership summit
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+ * Yearly (coinciding with release, Cephalocon / dev summit)
+ * virtual + in-person
+ * Council + leads + steering committed + anyone else (open meeting)
+ * This is where strategic priorities, decisions are discussed, how next council nominations are formed
+
+
+CDM
+^^^
+ * monthy, virtual
+
+
+User Meetup(s)
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+ * council + leads + users + interested parties
+ * monthly, virtual
+
+
+Standups
+^^^^^^^^
+
+ * daily, virtual
+
+
+Community Sync
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+ * weekly or bi-weekly
+ * who
+ * community manager
+ * community lead (usually a council rep)
+ * community ambassadors
+ * interested parties