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title: Proposal For Governance Remediation Process
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# Proposal For Governance Remediation Process

This is in response for the call for a remediation process that came up as part of the Notary review.

Proposed issue description:

There are situations where TOC may be asked to evaluate CNCF projects in ways that are not addressed by an existing project process or governance (e.g., when projects go through maturity reviews and votes). This issue provides a proposed scope for a Governance Remediation Process along with what would be in and out of scope for such a process.

This is a request for feedback from the community, with guidance from TAG Contributor Strategy.

**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 with the aide of TAG Contributor Strategy. The goal here would be to get a working governance.

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.

**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 you have any feedback on this proposal we would appreciate reading it.