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 442 <div id="header">
 443 <h1>Decision-Making Process in the Git Project</h1>
 444 <div class="details">
 445 <span id="revdate">2024-07-31</span>
 446 </div>
 447 </div>
 448 <div id="content">
 449 <div class="sect1">
 450 <h2 id="_introduction">Introduction</h2>
 451 <div class="sectionbody">
 452 <div class="paragraph">
 453 <p>This document describes the current decision-making process in the Git
 454 project. It is a descriptive rather than prescriptive doc; that is, we want to
 455 describe how things work in practice rather than explicitly recommending any
 456 particular process or changes to the current process.</p>
 457 </div>
 458 <div class="paragraph">
 459 <p>Here we document how the project makes decisions for discussions
 460 (with or without patches), in scale larger than an individual patch
 461 series (which is fully covered by the SubmittingPatches document).</p>
 462 </div>
 463 </div>
 464 </div>
 465 <div class="sect1">
 466 <h2 id="_larger_discussions_with_patches">Larger Discussions (with patches)</h2>
 467 <div class="sectionbody">
 468 <div class="paragraph">
 469 <p>As with discussions on an individual patch series, starting a larger-scale
 470 discussion often begins by sending a patch or series to the list. This might
 471 take the form of an initial design doc, with implementation following in later
 472 iterations of the series (for example,
 473 <a href="https://lore.kernel.org/git/0169ce6fb9ccafc089b74ae406db0d1a8ff8ac65.1688165272.git.steadmon@google.com/">adding unit tests</a> or
 474 <a href="https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200420235310.94493-1-emilyshaffer@google.com/">config-based hooks</a>),
 475 or it might include a full implementation from the beginning.
 476 In either case, discussion progresses the same way for an individual patch series,
 477 until consensus is reached or the topic is dropped.</p>
 478 </div>
 479 </div>
 480 </div>
 481 <div class="sect1">
 482 <h2 id="_larger_discussions_without_patches">Larger Discussions (without patches)</h2>
 483 <div class="sectionbody">
 484 <div class="paragraph">
 485 <p>Occasionally, larger discussions might occur without an associated patch series.
 486 These may be very large-scale technical decisions that are beyond the scope of
 487 even a single large patch series, or they may be more open-ended,
 488 policy-oriented discussions (examples:
 489 <a href="https://lore.kernel.org/git/ZZ77NQkSuiRxRDwt@nand.local/">introducing Rust</a>
 490 or <a href="https://lore.kernel.org/git/YHofmWcIAidkvJiD@google.com/">improving submodule UX</a>).
 491 In either case, discussion progresses as described above for general patch series.</p>
 492 </div>
 493 <div class="paragraph">
 494 <p>For larger discussions without a patch series or other concrete implementation,
 495 it may be hard to judge when consensus has been reached, as there are not any
 496 official guidelines. If discussion stalls at this point, it may be helpful to
 497 restart discussion with an RFC patch series (such as a partial, unfinished
 498 implementation or proof of concept) that can be more easily debated.</p>
 499 </div>
 500 <div class="paragraph">
 501 <p>When consensus is reached that it is a good idea, the original
 502 proposer is expected to coordinate the effort to make it happen,
 503 with help from others who were involved in the discussion, as
 504 needed.</p>
 505 </div>
 506 <div class="paragraph">
 507 <p>For decisions that require code changes, it is often the case that the original
 508 proposer will follow up with a patch series, although it is also common for
 509 other interested parties to provide an implementation (or parts of the
 510 implementation, for very large changes).</p>
 511 </div>
 512 <div class="paragraph">
 513 <p>For non-technical decisions such as community norms or processes, it is up to
 514 the community as a whole to implement and sustain agreed-upon changes.
 515 The project leadership committe (PLC) may help the implementation of
 516 policy decisions.</p>
 517 </div>
 518 </div>
 519 </div>
 520 <div class="sect1">
 521 <h2 id="_other_discussion_venues">Other Discussion Venues</h2>
 522 <div class="sectionbody">
 523 <div class="paragraph">
 524 <p>Occasionally decision proposals are presented off-list, e.g. at the semi-regular
 525 Contributors' Summit. While higher-bandwidth face-to-face discussion is often
 526 useful for quickly reaching consensus among attendees, generally we expect to
 527 summarize the discussion in notes that can later be presented on-list. For an
 528 example, see the thread
 529 <a href="https://lore.kernel.org/git/AC2EB721-2979-43FD-922D-C5076A57F24B@jramsay.com.au/">Notes
 530 from Git Contributor Summit, Los Angeles (April 5, 2020)</a> by James Ramsay.</p>
 531 </div>
 532 <div class="paragraph">
 533 <p>We prefer that "official" discussion happens on the list so that the full
 534 community has opportunity to engage in discussion. This also means that the
 535 mailing list archives contain a more-or-less complete history of project
 536 discussions and decisions.</p>
 537 </div>
 538 </div>
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