Please replace Org maintainer Justin Cormack with James Carnegie

[whalelines]

Please replace Justin Cormack (@justincormack) with James Carnegie (@kipz) as Docker's representative as a https://github.com/notaryproject Org maintainer.

/cc @toddysm

[toddysm]

Having James Carnegie (@kipz) as part of the community would be great and valuable for diversity. The only concern I see with this proposal is that James does not have a track record of participating in the community and will be a precedent in the governance of the project. He already started participating in the Notary Project community meetings and is looking forward to a more active participation.

I would propose nominating James as a maintainer of the .github repository where he can actively participate and vote on discussions about governance and strategy for the project and nominate him as Org maintainer in the future.

The other option would be for the active members of the community to agree on a change in the governance to elect a member of the participating organizations without the need to have prior history with the project.

[yizha1]

As a governance maintainer, I vote for option 1, which nominates James as a maintainer of the .github repository or other repositories that he can actively participate in. In the Notary Project community, contributions are not limited to coding. Here are some examples:

• Governance work in the .github repository, such as creating and reviewing PRs to add/update government documentation.
• Answering questions and providing support on the Notary Project Slack channel.
• Documentation work for the Notary Project website located in the notaryproject.dev repository.
• Specification work for features or new proposals, which can be done in the specification repository or CLI spec in the notation repository.
• Participation in Notary Project community meetings regularly.
• Triage issues and milestone planning using Notary Project Planning Board

We can revisit the nomination in 6 months and vote based on the similar data used in the issue #54.

[FeynmanZhou]

Thanks @whalelines 's nomination. I am glad to see @kipz's interest of being an org maintainer.

However, according to the Notary Project governance guide, it clarifies one of the requirements:

Potential new maintainers should be ongoing active participants in the project

As a governance maintainer, I would expect a potential qualified maintainer (org or sub-project) has been engaging any of the sub-projects and contributing to Notary Project for a few months, with a public track record of contribution provided.

So my opinion is to hold on this nomination until certain contribution and engagement from @kipz. I am willing and happy to help @kipz onboard and engage deeper with the project.

[vaninrao10]

Agree with @FeynmanZhou and @toddysm for nominating James as a maintainer of the .github repository where he can actively participate and vote on discussions about governance and strategy for the project and nominate him as Org maintainer in the future.

[NiazFK]

I think there is a risk in waiting for a nominee that brings considerable industry insight to submit the necessary number of contributions. I would suggest a change in governance where org maintainers that are leaving the project can nominate a replacement, even if they are not an active participant yet. This should provide more continuity as people change roles or pursue other interests.