This document describes the governance model for the EUR-UN open-source organization.

EUR-UN is a small, agile open-source collective. We prioritize simplicity, transparency, and fast decision-making over bureaucratic process.

The organization owner has full administrative access across all repositories and is responsible for:

• Setting the strategic direction of the organization
• Creating and archiving repositories
• Managing organization membership and team structures
• Approving cross-project architectural decisions
• Final authority on code of conduct enforcement

Maintainers are trusted contributors with write access to one or more repositories. Responsibilities include:

• Reviewing and merging pull requests
• Triaging issues and managing project boards
• Ensuring code quality and CI/CD pipeline health
• Mentoring new contributors
• Releasing new versions

Anyone who contributes code, documentation, bug reports, or other improvements to any EUR-UN repository. Contributors:

• Follow the Contributing Guidelines and Code of Conduct
• Submit work via pull requests
• May be invited to become maintainers based on sustained, quality contributions

• Maintainers make day-to-day decisions within their project scope (merge PRs, close issues, release versions).
• Decisions are made by lazy consensus — if no objection is raised within a reasonable time, the decision stands.

For cross-project or architectural decisions:

1. A proposal is opened as a GitHub Issue with the proposal label.
2. Discussion period of at least 7 days.
3. The organization owner makes the final call, taking community feedback into account.

• Adding or removing repositories from the organization
• Changing the default license for new projects
• Modifying governance rules
• Granting or revoking maintainer access

New projects start as personal repositories. When a project:

• Has a clear README and documentation
• Has a permissive open-source license (MIT preferred)
• Aligns with the organization's focus areas
• Has at least one stable release

...it may be proposed for adoption into the EUR-UN organization.

Active projects receive regular maintenance, issue triage, and accept contributions.

Projects that are feature-complete but still receive bug fixes and security patches.

Projects that are no longer maintained. They remain readable but accept no new contributions.

1. The candidate demonstrates sustained, quality contributions to one or more EUR-UN projects.
2. An existing maintainer or the organization owner nominates them.
3. The organization owner approves and grants appropriate access.

This governance document may be amended by the organization owner. Proposed changes will be posted as a PR with at least a 7-day comment period.

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