organicmaps/docs/GOVERNANCE.md

Governance

The Organic Maps project is community-driven and has little hierarchy.

The Board

Ensures the project stays within its Mission and Core Values, legally hosts project's assets like trademarks, domains, finances etc. and handles legal enquiries. See details of Board's structure and responsibilities.

Teams

Day-to-day work and decisions are made by the teams of active contributors ("the doers") in their area of expertise, e.g. Android development, translations or devops, see the full list of Teams.

At the moment there is no formal process to resolve non-technical disputes (e.g. UX disagreements or whether a proposed change fits into OM at all), but there are some common sense guidelines / recommendations:

• strive to address all reasonable concerns
• ask more contributors and experts on the matter to provide their opinion
• refer to users' feedback, e.g. include the change into an alpha version or poll via communication channels
• usually an incremental improvement is better than no change at all, create separate issues for follow-up concerns
• give benefit of a doubt to the actual "doers" who commit their energy into code, designs, etc.