Skywalking is an APM for Distributed Systems, also known Distributed Tracing System. 吴晟 @wu-sheng created this project at Oct. 2015. And contributed this project to the OpenSkywalking Organization at Oct 2017.

We have following groups to manage and contribute the project, each one has its own rights and responsibilities.

As a member of PMC, you must contribute and maintain the features or modules, and also take part in project management and building the eco-system. Because of that, you have following rights:

1. In charged with responsibility and governance for all projects/repositories in OpenSkywalking organization.
2. Edit rights for all repositories.
3. Merge right for pull request.
4. Vote right for promoting contributor to Committer Team and PMC.
5. Start a vote for promoting contributor to Committer Team and PMC, pull request or feature discussion.
6. For now, only 吴晟 @wu-sheng has right to remove people from PMC or Committer Team.

The current Project Management Committee is as follows (in chronological order):

• 吴晟 @wu-sheng Huawei
• 张鑫 @ascrutae
• 彭勇升 @peng-yongsheng R&D director，Tydic

As a member of PMC, you must contribute and maintain the features or modules. Because of that, you have following rights:

1. Edit rights for skywalking and skywalking-ui repositories.
2. Vote right for pull request or feature discussion.
3. Vote right for promoting contributor to Committer Team and PMC.

The current Committer Team is as follows (in chronological order):

• 柏杨 @bai-yang Senior Engineer, Alibaba Group.
• 高洪涛 @hanahmily Senior Architect, dangdang.com

Welcome any people to take part in our project. Contributors list based on GitHub rules.

• Contributors List
• Special thanks to the contributors: 徐妍@TastySummer and 戴文, you offer huge helps for this project.

In various situations the OpenSkywalking shall hold a vote. These votes can happen on the phone, email, or via a voting service, when appropriate. Voters can either respond "agree, yes, +1", "disagree, no, -1", or "abstain". A vote passes with two-thirds vote of votes cast. An abstain vote equals not voting at all.

吴晟 @wu-sheng has a special veto power: override the voting result, default: not use.