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Apache Polaris - Project Chat Bylaws

Apache Polaris is currently undergoing Incubation at the Apache Software Foundation.

Motivation

The Polaris project uses a public and open chat service currently provided by Zulip hosted at https://polaris-catalog.zulipchat.com/. A few rules shall ensure that the chat conforms to the rules and best practices of the Apache Software Foundation and serves well as a collaboration tool for the project.

Organizations and other open-source projects that contribute continuously and significantly to Polaris are welcome, but shall not use the Polaris chat as a vehicle for their own marketing without explicit approval of the project (P)PMC.

Code of Conduct

The Apache Software Foundation’s Code of Conduct applies to the Polaris project public chat.

Governance

  • The Polaris project’s chat tool is not provided by the ASF - the Polaris project (P)PMC members govern and monitor the chat service.
  • Everybody is welcome to join the Polaris project chat. Invites are not needed.
  • All users are automatically promoted to “members” (don’t stay in “guests”).
  • Polaris project (P)PMC members have “owner” privileges on the Zulip chat. Polaris project committers are granted “moderator” or “administrator” privileges for moderation purposes.
  • This bylaws document shall be published on the project’s web site and linked from relevant public channels.
  • Only (P)PMC members are allowed to create new channels. The number of channels shall be limited to #general (user discussions), #dev (development discussions), #announcements (release announcements), and #noise (GitHub feed).
  • Only (P)PMC members are allowed to notify a large number of users (aka @here).

3rd Parties

Definition: “3rd party” means any (other) open-source project or any commercial vendor or any other organization.

3rd Party Channels

  • 3rd parties who contribute to or use the Polaris project may ask the (P)PMC to get a dedicated public channel, for example #vendor- or #project-.
  • Promotion of 3rd party content is only permitted in these 3rd party channels, and only if the content primarily covers Polaris. Commercial advertisements in any form are prohibited.
  • Interaction with users of 3rd party OSS projects or commercial products should be directed to these 3rd party channels.

Content moderation

  • Any content which violates the Apache “Code of Conduct” will be removed.
  • Any commercial advertisements will be removed.
  • All other content will not be moderated.