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+# Volcano Governance
+
+## Principles
+
+The Volcano community adheres to the following principles:
+
+- Open: Volcano is open source community.
+- Welcoming and respectful: See [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/master/code-of-conduct.md).
+- Transparent and accessible: Changes to the Volcano organization, Volcano code repositories, and CNCF related activities (e.g. level, involvement, etc) are done in public.
+- Merit: Ideas and contributions are accepted according to their technical merit and alignment with
+  project objectives, scope, and design principles.
+
+## Expectations from Maintainers
+
+Every one carries water...
+
+Making a community work requires input/effort from everyone. Maintainers should actively
+participate in Pull Request reviews. Maintainers are expected to respond to assigned Pull Requests
+in a *reasonable* time frame, either providing insights, or assign the Pull Requests to other
+maintainers.
+
+Every Maintainer is listed in the
+[MAINTAINERS](https://github.com/volcano-sh/volcano/blob/master/MAINTAINERS.md)
+file, with their Github handle.
+
+## Becoming a Maintainer
+
+Please see the requirement [here](community-membership.md#maintainer)
+
+## Changes in Maintainership
+
+If a Maintainer feels she/he can not fulfill the "Expectations from Maintainers", they are free to
+step down.
+
+The Volcano organization will never forcefully remove a current Maintainer, unless a maintainer
+fails to meet the principles of Volcano community,
+or adhere to the [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/master/code-of-conduct.md).
+
+## Decision making process
+
+Decisions are build on consensus between maintainers.
+Proposals and ideas can either be submitted for agreement via a github issue or PR.
+
+In general, we prefer that technical issues and maintainer membership are amicably worked out between the persons involved.
+If a dispute cannot be decided independently, get a third-party maintainer (e.g. a mutual contact with some background
+on the issue, but not involved in the conflict) to intercede.
+If a dispute still cannot be decided, the project lead has the final say to decide an issue.
+
+Decision making process should be transparent to adhere to
+the principles of Volcano project.
+
+All proposals, ideas, and decisions by maintainers or the project lead
+should either be part of a github issue or PR.
+
+## Github Project Administration
+
+The __volcano__ GitHub project maintainers team reflects the list of Maintainers.
+
+## Other Projects
+
+The Volcano organization is open to receive new sub-projects under its umbrella. To accept a project
+into the __Volcano__ organization, it has to meet the following criteria:
+
+- Must be licensed under the terms of the Apache License v2.0
+- Must be related to one or more scopes of the Volcano ecosystem:
+  - Volcano project artifacts (website, deployments, CI, etc)
+  - External plugins
+  - Other AI/BigData related processing
+- Must be supported by a Maintainer not associated or affiliated with the author(s) of the sub-projects
+
+The submission process starts as a Pull Request or Issue on the
+[volcano-sh/volcano](https://github.com/volcano-sh/volcano) repository with the required information
+mentioned above. Once a project is accepted, it's considered a __CNCF sub-project under the umbrella
+of Volcano__.
+
+## Volcano and CNCF
+
+Volcano is a CNCF project. As such, Volcano might be involved in CNCF (or other CNCF projects) related
+marketing, events, or activities. Any maintainer could help driving the Volcano involvement, as long as
+create a GitHub Pull Request to call for participation
+from other maintainers. The `Call for Participation` should be kept open for no less than a week if time
+permits, or a _reasonable_ time frame to allow maintainers to have a chance to volunteer.
+
+## Code of Conduct
+
+The [Volcano Code of Conduct](https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/master/code-of-conduct.md) is aligned with the CNCF Code of Conduct.
+
+## Credits
+
+Sections of this documents have been borrowed from [CoreDns](https://github.com/coredns/coredns/blob/master/GOVERNANCE.md).
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