feat(governance): Technical Steering Committee charter and founding roster#300
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Introduce the darnit project's first formal governance documents, modeled on the LF Projects Technical Charter pattern used by GUAC and gittuf. Single-tier TSC over one project (gittuf shape, not GUAC's two-tier). New top-level files: - CHARTER.md — LF-template sections 1-8 plus a transitional §2.6 noting the known concentration risk of a two-member TSC. Voting rules: consensus-first; 50% quorum; simple majority of attendees with quorum (synchronous) or majority of entire TSC (electronic); 2/3 of entire TSC for amendments and license exceptions. PR approvals on tracked files are the canonical vote record; non-file decisions use a GitHub Issue with +1/-1/+0 comments. - TECHNICAL-STEERING-COMMITTEE.md — founding roster: Michael Lieberman (Kusari / industry / @mlieberman85) and Justin Cappos (NYU / academia / @JustinCappos). gittuf-style row schema with industry/academia tag. Reconciled with existing GOVERNANCE.md (was committed 2026-01-15): the prior maintainer-only decision-making model was reframed as the operational layer below the TSC charter. Pre-existing Project Structure, Roles and Responsibilities, Release Process, Code of Conduct, and Contact sections preserved. Removal-for-cause threshold follows gittuf: majority of the *other* current TSC members; the member under review does not vote on themselves. "Inactivity" is a discretionary judgment with no fixed numeric threshold. Validation: - All 8 LF sections present in order - Roster rows fully populated, GitHub handle regex matches, no chairs - CC-BY-4.0 license notice present in CHARTER.md - Cross-document invariant: founding handles do not appear in CHARTER.md (roster changes are a one-file edit) - ruff: passed - validate_sync: 5/5 passed - pytest: 2213 passed, 6 skipped, 0 failures Spec, plan, research, data model, quickstart, tasks, and checklist under specs/015-tsc-charter/ for the speckit feature artifacts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Lieberman <mlieberman85@gmail.com>
Replace typographic Unicode that was injected during initial drafting with plain-ASCII equivalents, per project preference for ASCII-only prose in repo files. Substitutions applied: - em-dash (U+2014) -> -- - en-dash (U+2013) -> - - right arrow (U+2192) -> -> - left-right arrow (U+2194) -> <-> - less-than-or-equal (U+2264) -> <= - greater-than-or-equal (U+2265) -> >= - box-drawing chars (U+2500..) -> - | + - play / down triangles (U+25BA, U+25BC) -> > v - warning sign with variation selector (U+26A0, U+FE0F) -> dropped - target emoji (U+1F3AF) -> dropped Files affected: CHARTER.md, GOVERNANCE.md, and the spec-kit feature artifacts under specs/015-tsc-charter/ (spec, plan, research, data-model, quickstart, tasks). TECHNICAL-STEERING-COMMITTEE.md and checklists/requirements.md were already pure ASCII; README.md edit introduced no non-ASCII. Validation post-scrub: all 8 LF charter sections still present in order; CC-BY-4.0 notice intact; roster rows unchanged; cross-document invariants hold. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Lieberman <mlieberman85@gmail.com>
Add two additional founding TSC members before charter adoption: - Stephen Augustus | Bloomberg | industry | @justaugustus - Adolfo Garcia Veytia | Carabiner | industry | @puerco Founding roster is now 4 members (3 industry, 1 academia), up from 2. Consequential changes: - Drop CHARTER.md section 2.6 ("Transitional Note on a Two-Member TSC"). With four members, "majority of the other current TSC members" no longer collapses to a majority of one, so the concentration-risk note is moot. Section 2 subsections now run 2.1..2.5; top-level sections 1..8 unchanged. - spec.md: record the expansion as a Clarifications session entry (2026-06-18). Annotate the pre-existing "Two-member quorum" and "Removal-for-cause in a two-member TSC" edge cases as moot, and mark the "Transitional two-member TSC" assumption as resolved. Preserved in the spec for audit-trail purposes rather than deleted. - data-model.md: update the "Required document structure" example and the "Initial roster matches user input" validation rule to reflect four founding rows. - plan.md, quickstart.md: light touch-ups noting the two-member framing is now historical. Out of scope (left as historical drafting record): research.md decision rationale, tasks.md task descriptions, checklists/requirements.md notes. These describe how the charter was authored, not what was adopted. Validation: - 8 LF charter top-level sections still present in order - All four roster rows fully populated, GitHub handle regex matches - Cross-document invariant holds (no member handles in CHARTER.md) - All authored files remain pure ASCII Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Lieberman <mlieberman85@gmail.com>
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Summary
Introduce the darnit project's first formal governance documents, modeled on the LF Projects Technical Charter pattern used by GUAC and gittuf. Single-tier TSC over one project (gittuf shape, not GUAC's two-tier).
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CHARTER.md: LF-template sections 1-8. Voting rules: consensus-first; 50% quorum; simple majority of attendees with quorum (synchronous) or majority of entire TSC (electronic); 2/3 of entire TSC for amendments and license exceptions. PR approvals on tracked files are the canonical vote record; non-file decisions use a GitHub Issue with+1/-1/+0comments.New
TECHNICAL-STEERING-COMMITTEE.md: founding roster of four:Reconciled
GOVERNANCE.md: existing maintainer-only model (committed 2026-01-15 in64dd2f2) reframed as the operational layer below the TSC charter. Pre-existing Project Structure, Roles and Responsibilities, Release Process, Code of Conduct, and Contact sections preserved with light edits clarifying that TSC authority sits above maintainer authority.README.md: added a Governance section linking the three documents.Key design choices
specs/015-tsc-charter/research.md+1/-1for othersFounding roster expansion (2026-06-18)
The first commit on this branch seated a two-member founding TSC, with an explicit Charter section 2.6 noting the transitional concentration risk and the intent to recruit a third member promptly. Before adoption that risk was already addressed: Stephen Augustus and Adolfo Garcia Veytia were added as founding members, bringing the TSC to four (three industry, one academia). Charter section 2.6 was removed as moot; the two-member edge cases in
spec.mdare annotated as moot but preserved for audit trail.Test plan
NEEDS CLARIFICATIONmarkers remain in any deliverable@[A-Za-z0-9-]+) matches all four membersCHARTER.mdCHARTER.md(a future roster change is a one-file edit)uv run ruff check .-- passeduv run python scripts/validate_sync.py --verbose-- passed (5/5)uv run pytest tests/ --ignore=tests/integration/ -q-- 2213 passed, 6 skipped, 0 failuresSpec-Kit artifacts (under
specs/015-tsc-charter/)spec.md,plan.md,research.md,data-model.md,quickstart.md,tasks.md, andchecklists/requirements.md. The clarifications sessions on vote recording, removal threshold, inactivity definition (2026-06-17), and the founding roster expansion (2026-06-18) are captured inspec.md.Commits
feat(governance): add Technical Steering Committee charter and roster-- the initial deliverable (2-member founding roster)style(governance): scrub non-ASCII characters from charter feature files-- plain-ASCII cleanupfeat(governance): expand founding TSC roster to four members-- add Augustus and Garcia Veytia, drop the now-moot transitional sectionAll commits carry DCO sign-off per the constitution.
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