How Governance in the OpenTelemetry Project Works – The New Stack
First, let’s talk about governance. OpenTelemetry does not have a benevolent dictator. In my opinion, that would be an inappropriate model for a project that wishes to become an open standard. Instead, we have a governance committee. The committee was initially seeded with founding members, but all positions going forward are elected by the project contributors. In my experience, contributing engineers tend to vote for other contributing engineers. This keeps the project healthy by ensuring that it is governed by respected, active participants. The responsibilities of the governance committ...
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