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+# Project management
+
+> "No one can whistle a symphony; it takes a whole orchestra to play it"
+>
+> — Halford E. Luccock
+
+This document outlines our project management processes for REST framework.
+
+The aim is to ensure that the project has a high 
+["bus factor"][bus-factor], and can continue to remain well supported for the foreseeable future. Suggestions for improvements to our process are welcome.
+
+---
+
+## Maintenance team
+
+We have a quarterly maintenance cycle where new members may join the maintenance team. We currently cap the size of the team at 5 members, and may encourage folks to step out of the team for a cycle to allow new members to participate.
+
+#### Current team
+
+The [maintenance team for Q1 2015](https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2190):
+
+* [@tomchristie](https://github.com/tomchristie/)
+* [@xordoquy](https://github.com/xordoquy/) (Release manager.)
+* [@carltongibson](https://github.com/carltongibson/)
+* [@kevin-brown](https://github.com/kevin-brown/)
+* [@jpadilla](https://github.com/jpadilla/)
+
+#### Maintenance cycles
+
+Each maintenance cycle is initiated by an issue being opened with the `Process` label.
+
+* To be considered for a maintainer role simply comment against the issue.
+* Existing members must explicitly opt-in to the next cycle by check-marking their name.
+* The final decision on the incoming team will be made by `@tomchristie`.
+
+Members of the maintenance team will be added as collaborators to the repository.
+
+The following template should be used for the description of the issue, and serves as the formal process for selecting the team.
+
+    This issue is for determining the maintenance team for the *** period.
+    
+    Please see the [Project management](http://www.django-rest-framework.org/topics/project-management/) section of our documentation for more details.
+    
+    ---
+    
+    #### Renewing existing members.
+    
+    The following people are the current maintenance team. Please checkmark your name if you wish to continue to have write permission on the repository for the *** period.
+    
+    - [ ] @***
+    - [ ] @***
+    - [ ] @***
+    - [ ] @***
+    - [ ] @***
+    
+    ---
+    
+    #### New members.
+    
+    If you wish to be considered for this or a future date, please comment against this or subsequent issues.
+
+#### Responsibilities of team members
+
+Team members have the following responsibilities.
+
+* Add triage labels and milestones to tickets.
+* Close invalid or resolved tickets.
+* Merge finalized pull requests.
+* Build and deploy the documentation, using `mkdocs gh-deploy`.
+
+Further notes for maintainers:
+
+* Code changes should come in the form of a pull request - do not push directly to master.
+* Maintainers should typically not merge their own pull requests.
+* Each issue/pull request should have exactly one label once triaged.
+* Search for un-triaged issues with [is:open no:label][un-triaged].
+
+It should be noted that participating actively in the REST framework project clearly **does not require being part of the maintenance team**. Almost every import part of issue triage and project improvement can be actively worked on regardless of your collaborator status on the repository.
+
+---
+
+## Release process
+
+The release manager is selected on every quarterly maintenance cycle.
+
+* The manager should be selected by `@tomchristie`.
+* The manager will then have the maintainer role added to PyPI package.
+* The previous manager will then have the maintainer role removed from the PyPI package.
+
+Our PyPI releases will be handled by either the current release manager, or by `@tomchristie`. Every release should have an open issue tagged with the `Release` label and marked against the appropriate milestone.
+
+The following template should be used for the description of the issue, and serves as a release checklist.
+
+    Release manager is @***.
+    Pull request is #***.
+
+    Checklist:
+
+    - [ ] Create pull request for [release notes](https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/blob/master/docs/topics/release-notes.md) based on the [*.*.* milestone](https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/milestones/***).
+    - [ ] Ensure the pull request increments the version to `*.*.*` in [`restframework/__init__.py`](https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/blob/master/rest_framework/__init__.py).
+    - [ ] Confirm with @tomchristie that release is finalized and ready to go.
+    - [ ] Ensure that release date is included in pull request.
+    - [ ] Merge the release pull request.
+    - [ ] Push the package to PyPI with `./setup.py publish`.
+    - [ ] Tag the release, with `git tag -a *.*.* -m 'version *.*.*'; git push --tags`.
+    - [ ] Deploy the documentation with `mkdocs gh-deploy`.
+    - [ ] Make a release announcement on the [discussion group](https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/django-rest-framework).
+    - [ ] Make a release announcement on twitter.
+    - [ ] Close the milestone on GitHub.
+
+When pushing the release to PyPI ensure that your environment has been installed from our development `requirement.txt`, so that documentation and PyPI installs are consistently being built against a pinned set of packages.
+
+---
+
+## Project ownership
+
+The PyPI package is owned by `@tomchristie`. As a backup `@j4mie` also has ownership of the package.
+
+If `@tomchristie` ceases to participate in the project then `@j4mie` has responsibility for handing over ownership duties.
+
+#### Outstanding management & ownership issues
+
+The following issues still need to be addressed:
+
+* [Consider moving the repo into a proper GitHub organization][github-org].
+* Ensure `@jamie` has back-up access to the `django-rest-framework.org` domain setup and admin.
+* Document ownership of the [live example][sandbox] API.
+* Document ownership of the [mailing list][mailing-list] and IRC channel.
+
+[bus-factor]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
+[un-triaged]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues?q=is%3Aopen+no%3Alabel
+[github-org]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/2162
+[sandbox]: http://restframework.herokuapp.com/
+[mailing-list]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/django-rest-framework