Welcome to XenProject’s Governance Documents

The Regulations section contains documents that regulate the operation of the XenProject, including minimum acceptable behavior and possible responses to unacceptable behavior. The Guides section contains documents describing ideal behavior that we strive for as a community.

Regulations:

• Xen Project Governance
  • Content
  • Goals
  • Principles
  • Xen Project Wide Roles
  • Project Team Roles
  • Making Contributions
  • Decision Making, Conflict Resolution, Role Nominations and Elections
  • Community Decisions with Funding and Legal Implications
  • Project Governance
  • Per Sub-Project Governance Specialisation
  • Change History
• Xen Project Code of Conduct
  • Our Pledge
  • Our Standards
  • Our Responsibilities
  • Scope
  • What to do if you witness or are subject to unacceptable behavior
  • Conduct Team members
  • Attribution

Guides:

• Communication Guide
  • Goal
  • Communication & Handling Differences in Opinions
  • Getting Help
  • Specific Topics and Best Practice
• Code Review Guide
  • What we look for in Code Reviews
  • Code Review Workflow
• Communication Best Practice
  • Code reviews for reviewers and patch authors
  • Common Communication Pitfalls
• Resolving Disagreement
  • Theory: Paul Graham’s hierarchy of disagreement
  • Issue: Scope creep
  • Issue: Bikeshedding
  • Issue: Small functional issues
  • Issue: Multiple ways to solve a problem
  • Resolution: Asking for an independent opinion
  • Decision making and conflict resolution in our governance

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