Tripal Governance ================== Changes to this Document -------------------------- These guidelines are binding to the Tripal Community. If you have comments or questions, please `comment on the Github issue `_. Changes to this document will be made after adequate discussion has occurred and the project management committee has voted in favor of the change. Governance Structure --------------------- The Tripal project recognizes these roles: - Users: They have downloaded Tripal! Maybe they even have a site! - Contributors: contributing! Code, comments, discussion, questions, bug reports. - Committers: write access to the repository. - PMC: Makes **code relevant** decisions. - Oversight committee: Makes **policy level** decisions. This may overlap with PMC, but the idea is the oversight committee includes parties who are **not necessarily coders** and therefore not reviewing Pull requests etc.