[Governance Review]: WasmEdge

[alabulei1]

Project Name

WasmEdge

Project Website

https://wasmedge.org/

Contact Details 1

@juntao

Contact Details 2

@alabulei1

Links to communication channels

#WasmEdge in the CNCF slack channel and WasmEdge Discord Server

Reason for governance review request

CNCF Incubation acceptance application. Application issue link: cncf/toc#1316

Are there any sub-projects, plugins, and related?

No. https://github.com/WasmEdge/ is the main project, including the plugins.

Governance model

WasmEdge adopts CNCF governance template as the governance model.

Governance documents

• Project purpose
  • The WasmEdge is a lightweight, high-performance, and extensible WebAssembly runtime for the cloud native workloads. See the documentation here and README.md here.
• Maintainer List (with employer information)
  • The maintainer, committer, and reviewer list can be found here.
• How your project is making decisions
  • The maintainers will use voting to make a decision on specific actions or changes. See the section here.
  • For the feature implementation, the maintainers will update it quarterly with the community. See the section here.
• How and when contributors are moving through the contributor ladder (e.g. becoming a maintainer)
  • The current maintainers will propose the new maintainer first and then get the final result. See the section here.
• Maintainer life cycle with information about how and when maintainers are demoted
  • Voting is a required process for onboarding a new maintainer. See the section here. For demoting the maintainer, the basic rule is volunteer demotion by the maintainer itself. See the section here.
• Code of Conduct
  • The WasmEdge community follows the CNCF Code of Conduct. See the documentation here.
• Contributor Guide
  • The WasmEdge community adopts the CNCF contributor guide. See the details here.
• How your community conduct communication and meetings
  • The WasmEdge community can communicate in the #WasmEdge CNCF slack channel and also a separate Discord server.
  • The community meeting occurs on the first Tuesday of each month. We also have public issues and Google Docs to discuss and record the community meeting.
• How your community handles security reporting and response
  • Overall, the WasmEdge community adopts the CNCF Security template.
    • See the Security policy here.
    • See the security contacts here.
    • See the embargo policy here.
• Who owns what code and docs
  • See the code owner list here.

Governance Execution Examples

• Voting
  • Updated the GOVERNANCE.md by voting. [Community] propose adding an additional code of conduct WasmEdge/WasmEdge#2575
  • Updated the ROADMAP by voting. [Docs] Update roadmap for Q3/2024. WasmEdge/WasmEdge#3517
  • Update the security policy by voting. [Docs] Update security-related files WasmEdge/WasmEdge#3472
  • Add new maintainers by voting. [Community] nominate new committers WasmEdge/WasmEdge#3505
• Promoting a contributor / demoting a maintainer
  • [Community] Nominate Shreyas Atre(@SAtacker) as WasmEdge Committers WasmEdge/WasmEdge#2640
  • [Community] Propose new reviewer, WenYuan Huang, for the WASI-Logging proposal WasmEdge/WasmEdge#2578
  • [community] Propose new reviewers WasmEdge/WasmEdge#2550
  • [Community] Nominate 王纪开(@am009) as WasmEdge Reviewers WasmEdge/WasmEdge#3080
  • [Community] nominate new committers WasmEdge/WasmEdge#3505
• Security Response
  • We haven’t received any security report as of this report.
• Meeting recordings
  • See the recordings here.

Governance Evolution

At the beginning of the project, we adopted the governance from a mature CNCF project called Helm.

As the community grows bigger, we improved our code of conduct for contributors to incorporate other open-source projects. See the PR here.

Meanwhile, as the CNCF’s governance template evolves, the governance of WasmEdge also improves. See the latest update here.

Any specific aspects of your governance structure are you seeking feedback on?

No response

Do you have any concerns or specific areas where you feel your governance could be improved?

No response

Additional notes and resources

No response

[alabulei1]

Hi @aliok, @jberkus, and @geekygirldawn,

May I ask the process for expediting the governance review? Is there someone officially assigned to oversee this review for the project? The governance review is a crucial step, as it is required by the ToC for our sandbox project to move to incubation. Your assistance is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[jberkus]

Hey, unfortunately, due to limited volunteers in TAG-CS, we're running behind on govenance reviews. As such, we've been taking instructions from the TOC on what order to review them in based on how close those applications are to completing. Yours will get done before it can result in a delay.

While we're chatting though, can you clarify something? You say above:

WasmEdge adopts CNCF governance template as the governance model.

However, there are three different templates, and none of them are the Helm governance, which is what you say elsewhere you evolved from. What do you specifically mean by the above?

[alabulei1]

I'm sorry; it's my mistake. The first version of WasmEdge Governance is borrowed from the Helm project. We have made some updates in the last few months, but I forgot to remove this sentence. PR #3841 has solved the problem. Thanks.

[jberkus]

Had a conversation with WASMedge folks at Kubecon; will do review when they're ready.

[alabulei1]

Happy New Year! @jberkus

Thanks for your suggestion and patience. I think we're ready to start the governance review. Thank you. Feel free to let me know if you have any questions.

[jberkus]

Thanks! Can you also link to your Incubating issue for the data there?

[alabulei1]

Hi Josh,

The issue link for the WasmEdge incubation application is: cncf/toc#1316.

I’ve also added the link to the governance review details for reference. Thanks!