Update gVisor GOVERNANCE.md - #14614
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| is adopted in advance so that the guardrail is already in place as the | ||
| maintainer base broadens, rather than having to be negotiated at the moment it | ||
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I think there needs to be an additional clause here for the case where org votes are even and tied. In this case, I think the least controversial option should be that the side of the vote with the most maintainers in aggregate wins.
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@@ -286,6 +286,14 @@ Independent contributors each receive one vote. Where a threshold is stated as a
simple or two-thirds majority, it is computed over organizational votes rather
than individual votes for these decision types.
+**Resolving an impasse.** Organizational votes can divide evenly when an even
+number of organizations is represented. Where a vote reaches such an impasse,
+the decision is settled by the total number of active maintainers supporting
+each side, counted individually across all organizations, and the side with more
+maintainers prevails. If the maintainer counts are also equal, the motion does
+not carry. So that an impasse can be resolved this way, maintainers record their
+individual positions when voting, even on decisions counted by organization.
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**Determining organization.** A maintainer's organization is their current
employer as recorded in
[`governance/maintainers.yaml`](governance/maintainers.yaml) and rendered in
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Reference: https://github.com/cncf/project-template/blob/main/GOVERNANCE-maintainer.md