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Put information about Collaborators in GOVERNANCE.md before information
about the CTC. For most things, the CTC is the last place to go, not the
first and Collaborators have a lot of decision-making power in the
project. The governance doc should reflect that.

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# Node.js Project Governance

## Core Technical Committee

The Node.js project is governed by a Core Technical Committee (CTC) which is
responsible for high-level guidance of the project.

The CTC has final authority over this project including:

* Technical direction
* Project governance and process (including this policy)
* Contribution policy
* GitHub repository hosting
* Conduct guidelines
* Maintaining the list of additional Collaborators

For the current list of CTC members, see the project
[README.md](./README.md#current-project-team-members).
The Node.js project is governed by its Collaborators, including a Core Technical
Committee (CTC) which is responsible for high-level guidance of the project.

## Collaborators

The [nodejs/node](https://github.com/nodejs/node) GitHub repository is
maintained by the CTC and additional Collaborators who are added by the
CTC on an ongoing basis.
maintained by Collaborators who are added by the CTC on an ongoing basis.

Individuals identified by the CTC as making significant and valuable
contributions are made Collaborators and given commit access to the project. If
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the change. Previously-objecting Collaborators do not necessarily have to
sign-off on the change, but they should not be opposed to it.
* The change is escalated to the CTC and the CTC votes to approve the change.
This should be used only after other options (especially discussion among
the disagreeing Collaborators) have been exhausted.
This should only happen if disagreements between Collaborators cannot be
resolved through discussion.

Collaborators may opt to elevate significant or controversial modifications to
the CTC by assigning the `ctc-review` label to a pull request or issue. The
CTC should serve as the final arbiter where required.

For the current list of Collaborators, see the project
[README.md](./README.md#current-project-team-members).

A guide for Collaborators is maintained in
[COLLABORATOR_GUIDE.md](./COLLABORATOR_GUIDE.md).
* [Current list of Collaborators](./README.md#current-project-team-members)
* [A guide for Collaborators](./COLLABORATOR_GUIDE.md)

### Collaborator Activities

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Collaborators. Past Collaborators are typically given _Emeritus_ status. Emeriti
may request that the CTC restore them to active status.

## Core Technical Committee

The Core Technical Committee (CTC) has final authority over this project
including:

* Technical direction
* Project governance and process (including this policy)
* Contribution policy
* GitHub repository hosting
* Conduct guidelines
* Maintaining the list of additional Collaborators

* [Current list of CTC members](./README.md#current-project-team-members)

## CTC Membership

CTC seats are not time-limited. There is no fixed size of the CTC. The CTC
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The CTC may add additional members to the CTC by a standard CTC motion.

When a CTC member's participation in [CTC activities](#ctc-activities) has become
minimal for a sustained period of time, the CTC will request that the member
either indicate an intention to increase participation or voluntarily resign.
When a CTC member's participation in [CTC activities](#ctc-activities) has
become minimal for a sustained period of time, the CTC will request that the
member either indicate an intention to increase participation or voluntarily
resign.

CTC members may only be removed by voluntary resignation or through a standard
CTC motion.
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