Governance

Captain: bighydro. A ship has one captain and the captain signs the log. The captain merges, releases monthly, and writes the CHANGELOG.

The envelope (SPEC §2–3) changes only by major version and ships with a migration tool. Payload profiles change freely through RFCs in rfcs/: open a pull request with the schema and one fixture; two weeks of comment; merge.

Decisions are made in public issues. When the steward and a contributor disagree, the captain decides and writes down why in the log (the issue). If the ship ever has three officers of the watch, this file gets replaced with something better.