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# TAG Contrib Strategy issue for Governance Remediation Process

There have been requests from the community for the TOC to provide a remediation strategy around governance issues. This has been captured in the TOC repo at the issue ABC123.

As part of this process, the TOC would like to enlist TAG Contributor Strategy to be the first level of remediation and are asking the TAG to create a process for such situations. The scope of the process is:

> **In Scope:**
> - A review and possible remediation for a project not following its governance which has resulted in conflicts. The goal here would be to correct so the project is following its governance.
> - A situation where issues have arisen, a project does not have governance to handle the situation, and the project has been unable to create a working governance to handle the situation. The goal here would be to get a working governance.
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> Projects are self-governing. Documented governance is not a requirement until graduation. This is when the TOC can verify the governance is able to handle making decisions.
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> **Out of Scope:**
> - Conduct issues with people in the community. This is the scope of the code of conduct processes.
> - Disagreements around direction or technical implementation. These are the scope of the project. Projects should have governance to handle such decisions. If not, they should pause on the issue to update and document the governance to handle the situation, and then return to the decision.
> - Elements covered as part the existing lifecycle process for projects.

If the process outlined by TAG contributor strategy is unable to remediate the problem there should be an escalation process to the TOC.

This is, initially, a request for feedback as we can discuss how to best handle this.