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Cheiron Management Committee bylaws

The Cheiron Management Committee (CMC) was defined by Virgil management in January 2002. Virgil management handed over full responsibility for running Cheiron to the CMC and therefore has no formal saying in the Cheiron destination, other than by their representatives and that they are the legal copyright owner.

Roles

The CMC is responsible for the strategic direction and overall success of the Cheiron projects. However Cheiron is considered a meritocracy, and decision making is delegated to the project committers whenever possible.

Duties

Responsibilities of the CMC include:

• the active discussion of Cheiron issues, strategic direction, and forward progress;
• the consideration and approval of new projects;
• the appointment and retirement of project leaders;
• retiring inactive projects and committers as necessary;
• arbitrating otherwise intractable disputes regarding project voting and vetos.

Meetings

The CMC shall conduct as much business as possible on the Cheiron general mailing list. Sensitive business may also be conducted on the closed CMC mailing list if prudent. The CMC may also convene regular meetings with a majority of its members attending. These meetings may take place online, via teleconference, or via other means deemed effective by the CMC. The CMC shall post a regular status report to the general list, along with minutes of any 'off-list' meeting.

Voting

Only a CMC member may call for a vote of the CMC. The voting pool is based on the current CMC membership. All members are expected to formally vote or abstain when a vote is called. CMC members who continually fail to vote or otherwise participate may lose their CMC status.

Most CMC actions require a 'super-majority' vote, where at least 3/4's of the current CMC members must cast a positive vote for the action to be approved. When computation of 3/4's of the current membership does not produce a whole number, the result shall be rounded the nearest whole number.

Membership

There is no term limit for CMC members. The list of current CMC members is to be maintained at the people page. All CMC members should be active committers to one or more projects. CMC members may resign at any time, they can only be removed by a super-majority vote of the CMC members.

A committer may be nominated for the CMC by a current CMC member. Nominees should realize that participation in the CMC requires a regular and sustained commitment of their time, and is not to be taken lightly. A nominee becomes a CMC member by a successful super-majority vote.

Creation of projects

CMC members may propose the creation of new projects. Proposals are to contain the scope of the project, identify the initial source from which the project is to be populated, identify the mailing lists to be created, and identify the initial set of committers. Creation of a new project requires approval by super-majority vote of the CMC. It is preferred but not required that at least one CMC member will become committer to a new project.

When a project is created a "Project leader" will be installed, as project leaders have powers beyond those of committers it is possible that exercising these powers can lead to a situation in which the continuity of a project is in danger, in these circumstances the CMC will arbitrage and can, as a last resort, release the project leader from its duties by appointing another project leader.