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+# Fluent Bit & Governance
+
+Fluent Bit is a CNCF sub-project under the umbrella of Fluentd.
+
+
+
+## Your organization is not yet a maintainer
+
+The following items describes the global process for an individual to become a maintainer:
+
+* Express interest to maintainers that your organization is interested in becoming a
+  maintainer. Becoming a maintainer generally means that you are going to be spending substantial
+  time on Fluent Bit for the foreseeable future. You should have domain expertise and be extremely
+  proficient in C. Ultimately your goal is to become a maintainer that will represent your
+  organization.
+* We will expect you to start contributing increasingly complicated PRs, under the guidance
+  of the existing maintainers.
+* We may ask you to do some PRs from our backlog.
+* As you gain experience with the code base and our standards, we will ask you to do code reviews
+  for incoming PRs (i.e., all maintainers are expected to shoulder a proportional share of
+  community reviews).
+* After a period of approximately 6-8 months of working together and making sure we see eye to eye,
+  the existing maintainers will confer and decide whether to grant maintainer status or not.
+  We make no guarantees on the length of time this will take, but 6-8 months is the approximate
+  goal.
+
+Note that maintainer status is primary assigned to the individual, the organization that support his work gets an _honor title_ of _maintainer organization_, but If the maintainer moves to a new organization the _honor title_ is transferred. 
+
+## Maintainer responsibilities
+
+* Monitor Slack (delayed response is perfectly acceptable).
+* Triage GitHub issues and perform pull request reviews for other maintainers and the community.
+* Triage build issues - file issues for known flaky builds or bugs, and either fix or find someone
+  to fix any master build breakages.
+* Make sure that ongoing PRs are moving forward at the right pace or closing them.
+* In general continue to be willing to spend at least 25% of ones time working on Fluent Bit (~1.25
+  business days per week).
+
+## When does a maintainer lose maintainer status
+
+If a maintainer is no longer interested or cannot perform the maintainer duties listed above, they
+should volunteer to quit the existing role.
+
+## Conflict resolution and voting
+
+In general, we prefer that technical issues and maintainer membership are amicably worked out
+between the persons involved. If a dispute cannot be decided independently, the maintainers can be
+called in to decide an issue. If the maintainers themselves cannot decide an issue, the issue will
+be resolved by voting. 
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