Homebrew Leadership Responsibilities
Project Leadership Committee
PLC Sole Responsibilities
- organising the AGM
- voting on maintainer hardware grants (before they are purchased)
- voting on maintainer hackathon/conference/AGM travel expenses (before they are booked)
- responding to and handling Code of Conduct complaints
- removing inactive members (that are not maintainers) that did not vote in the AGM
PLC Shared Responsibilities
- approving Open Collective expenses that are expected or have already been agreed upon by the PLC (e.g. Homebrew cloud usage on a personal credit card) (only one approval needed)
- blocking abusive GitHub users
- performing GitHub admin operations on the Homebrew GitHub organisation
- performing Slack admin operations on the Homebrew Slack
PLC Dated Yearly Tasks
- January: check membership, announce AGM votes
- Ask for nominations for the for the PLC and project leader, and ask who is interested in serving on the TSC
- Create ballots for the elections on https://www.opavote.com
- Ask the project leader and representatives of the PLC and TSC to prepare reports for the AGM
- Ask for members interested in presenting lightning talks at the AGM
- February: organise the annual general meeting (AGM)
- Create a dedicated Slack channel
- Book a group dinner (which Homebrew pays for) and check for any dietary requirements
- Ask someone to bring a conference/table microphone for people to be able to remotely participate in AGM
- Reconsider current OpenCollective invoice hourly rates based on e.g. inflation
- February after the AGM:
- Add the minutes of the AGM to Homebrew/brew’s governance archives
- Create an issue in Homebrew/brew to survey members who did not vote in the election whether they wish to remain or step down as members
- Members that are not maintainers should be a least one of:
- An current or previously active maintainer, PLC/TSC member or Project Leader
- A long-standing member of the Homebrew community (e.g. been submitting good bug reports for over two years)
- After the survey issue is closed, list the current year’s members in a new file within the governance archives
- October: arrange in-person AGM
- Offer to pay for Homebrew maintainers who are at least one of:
- active Homebrew maintainers (i.e. not just contributors)
- new Homebrew maintainers (i.e. this would be their first AGM)
- current members of or running for election for PLC/TSC/Project Leader
- Authorise people to book travel
Project Leader
PL Sole Responsibilities
- manage all day-to-day technical decisions
- resolve disputes related to the operation of Homebrew between maintainers, members, other contributors, and users
- product management for the various Homebrew products
- in February, before the AGM: checking for activity of non-PLC/TSC maintainers and asking them to step down if they have not been active enough in the past 12 months
PL Shared Responsibilities
- approving new Homebrew maintainers (only one approval needed)
- approving Open Collective expenses that are expected or have already been agreed upon by the PLC (e.g. Homebrew cloud usage on a personal credit card) (only one approval needed)
- blocking abusive GitHub users
- performing GitHub admin operations on the Homebrew GitHub organisation
- performing Slack admin operations on the Homebrew Slack
Technical Steering Committee
TSC Sole Responsibilities
- decide on technical disputes between Homebrew maintainers and the Project Leader
TSC Shared Responsibilities
- approving new Homebrew maintainers (only one approval needed)
- blocking abusive GitHub users
- performing GitHub admin operations on the Homebrew GitHub organisation
