The OpenWDL project is governed by a community-driven development process wherein all sufficiently impactful decisions are made via consensus under the stewardship of the governance committee. The intention is that most most decisions will be made via community discussion and agreement and, in the rare cases that community consensus is not reached, the governance committee will vote to decide the issue.
Major issues, such as the introduction of new features to WDL, setting the project's priorities, and setting the release schedule of the language, should be introduced via an RFC. Smaller issues, such as clarifications to the existing specification that keep the spirit of previously agreed upon technical decisions, grammatical errors, and other housekeeping tasks, are not required to go through this process.
The current members of the governance committee are:
| Name | Organization | github |
|---|---|---|
| John Didion | Fulcrum Genomics | jdidion |
| Taylor Firman | Fred Hutch | tefirman |
| Jeff Gentry | Fulcrum Genomics | geoffjentry |
| Peter Huene | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital | peterhuene |
| Mike Lin | Chan Zuckerberg Initiative | mlin |
| Christopher Llanwarne | Broad Institute | cjllanwarne |
| Patrick Magee | DNAstack | patmagee |
| Venkat Malladi | Microsoft | vsmalladi |
| Clay McLeod | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital | claymcleod |
| Brian O'Connor | Sage Bionetworks | briandoconnor |
| Mark Schreiber | Amazon | markjschreiber |
| Ruben Vorderman | Leiden University Medical Center | rhpvorderman |
At the core group's discretion a new member may be added by a majority vote. This addition will be done to recognize significant contributions to the community. Contributions include such things as:
- contributing directly to the specification,
- building an execution engine or supporting tooling for WDL,
- consistent, active participation in community discussions and RFCs, and
- contributing to documentation or the website (content or blogs).
If you're interested in joining the governance committee, please join Slack and let us know in the #general channel.
Generally members are only removed at their own request are due to very long term inactivity. In extreme circumstances the core group can vote to remove a member.
Any changes submitted to the WDL specification, project priorities, or the release schedule are subject to the RFC process. Please review and familiarize yourself with the process if you would like to see changes submitted to the specification.
All contributors to the OpenWDL project must read and abide by the principles laid out in the CONTRIBUTING.md document. This applies to all codebases under the OpenWDL organization—not just the specification.