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Governance

This document describes how the CNCF MCP Server project is governed.

Roles

  • Maintainers — Technical direction, release management, PR review and merge, security response. Listed in MAINTAINERS.md when applicable.
  • Reviewers — Code review and triage; earned through sustained contributions.
  • Contributors — Anyone with a merged PR or substantive issue/design input.

Decision Making

  • Routine changes — Lazy consensus: proceed unless someone objects with a good reason.
  • Architectural or governance changes — Require an RFC (see below) and 2/3 maintainer approval where applicable.
  • Public roadmap — Maintained in the repo (e.g. ROADMAP.md or GitHub Projects); community input is welcome.

RFC Process

For significant changes (e.g. new storage backends, plugin ABI, transport behavior, dependency or runtime requirements):

  1. Propose — Open an RFC in docs/rfcs/ (or the path specified in the repo). Include: context, problem, proposed solution, alternatives, migration path.
  2. Discuss — Use the PR or GitHub Discussions; maintainers and community can comment.
  3. Decision — Maintainers decide to accept, reject, or request changes. 2/3 maintainer vote may be required for governance or API-stability decisions.

Releases

  • Releases are cut from the main branch (or a release branch) and tagged (e.g. v0.1.0).
  • Release workflow builds multi-arch binaries and container images; SBOM and signing are introduced as we mature (see MCP_BLUEPRINT.md).

AI-Assisted Contributions

  • AI-generated or AI-assisted contributions are welcome but must be disclosed (e.g. AI-Assisted: true in the PR description).
  • The same quality bar applies: tests, clippy, and human review. AI-only contributors do not become reviewers.

CNCF Alignment

This project aims to align with CNCF values and, when ready, to apply for CNCF Sandbox. Governance and community practices will evolve to meet CNCF expectations.
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