docs: draft federated subproject governance model

.gitvote.yml

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ profiles:
     #   days    | day    | d
     #   weeks   | week   | w
     #
-    duration: 4w
+    duration: 2w
 
     # Pass threshold (required)
     #
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ profiles:
   # default values when they are not provided on other profiles.
   #
   governance:
-    duration: 4w
+    duration: 2w
     pass_threshold: 66
     close_on_passing: true
     announcements:

CODEOWNERS

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+# CloudNativePG governance repository CODEOWNERS.
+#
+# See GOVERNANCE.md and subprojects/README.md for what these teams are and
+# how they roll out.
 * @cloudnative-pg/governance-owners @cloudnative-pg/admins
+
+# GOVERNANCE.md, MAINTAINERS.md, and CONTRIBUTOR_LADDER.md are Steering
+# Committee-owned documents (see GOVERNANCE.md's Voting section); until the
+# Steering Committee and its GitHub team exist, they fall back to the
+# default rule above.
+/GOVERNANCE.md @cloudnative-pg/governance-owners @cloudnative-pg/admins
+/MAINTAINERS.md @cloudnative-pg/governance-owners @cloudnative-pg/admins
+/CONTRIBUTOR_LADDER.md @cloudnative-pg/governance-owners @cloudnative-pg/admins
+
+# Each subproject's own component listing is scoped to that subproject's
+# maintainer committee team, which now exists on GitHub but still has
+# placeholder membership and no granted repo access (see note above), so
+# `admins` is listed alongside each as a working fallback. The subprojects
+# index itself stays on the `governance-owners` fallback, since it isn't
+# owned by any single subproject.
+/subprojects/README.md @cloudnative-pg/governance-owners @cloudnative-pg/admins
+/subprojects/core.md @cloudnative-pg/core-maintainers @cloudnative-pg/admins
+/subprojects/supply-chain.md @cloudnative-pg/supply-chain-maintainers @cloudnative-pg/admins
+/subprojects/community-ecosystem.md @cloudnative-pg/community-ecosystem-maintainers @cloudnative-pg/admins
+/subprojects/extensibility.md @cloudnative-pg/extensibility-maintainers @cloudnative-pg/admins

CONTRIBUTORS.md

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 # CloudNativePG Contributors
 
-This document identifies the individuals who have been formally recognized as
-**Contributors** or **Component Owners** to the CloudNativePG project, as
-defined in [GOVERNANCE.md](GOVERNANCE.md). 
+This document lists individuals holding the **Contributor** tier specifically,
+the entry rung of the ladder in [CONTRIBUTOR_LADDER.md](CONTRIBUTOR_LADDER.md),
+with no repository-scoped access yet. It is not a roster of everyone active in
+the project: Component Owners are listed by repository in the
+[subprojects/](subprojects/README.md) folder, and Subproject Maintainers and
+Steering Committee members in [MAINTAINERS.md](MAINTAINERS.md), rather than
+repeated here. A Contributor who is later promoted to Component Owner moves
+to that listing and is removed from this one. A Contributor may also be
+tagged in a repository's `CODEOWNERS` file for review-routing without
+leaving this list: that's an operational choice by the repository's
+Component Owners, not a promotion (see
+[CONTRIBUTOR_LADDER.md's Component Owner section](CONTRIBUTOR_LADDER.md#component-owner)).
 
-Contributors and Component Owners are listed in alphabetical order by last
-name. 
-The project is grateful for their ongoing dedication to the community,
-documentation, and technical excellence.
+Contributors are listed in alphabetical order by last name. The project is
+grateful for their ongoing dedication to the community, documentation, and
+technical excellence.
 
 | Name | GitHub Handle | Country |
 | :--- | :--- | :--- |
-| Yash Agarwal | [@XploY04](https://github.com/XploY04) | India |
-| Jonathan Battiato | [@jbattiato](https://github.com/jbattiato) | Italy |
-| Floor Drees | [@FloorD](https://github.com/FloorD) | Netherlands |
-| Niccolò Fei | [@NiccoloFei](https://github.com/NiccoloFei) | Italy |
-| Itay Grudev | [@itay-grudev](https://github.com/itay-grudev) | Bulgaria |
-| Tao Li | [@litaocdl](https://github.com/litaocdl) | China |
 | Gabriele Quaresima | [@gabriele-wolfox](https://github.com/gabriele-wolfox) | Italy |
-| Anushka Saxena | [@SaxenaAnushka102](https://github.com/SaxenaAnushka102) | India |
-| Jaime Silvela | [@jsilvela](https://github.com/jsilvela) | Spain |
-| Yoshiyuki Tabata | [@y-tabata](https://github.com/y-tabata) | Japan |
 
 ---
 
 ## How to become a Contributor
 
-Formal Contributor status is awarded through a nomination by an existing
-Maintainer and a simple majority vote.
-For more information on the requirements and the nomination process, please
-refer to the **Project Roles** section in our [Governance document](GOVERNANCE.md).
+Formal Contributor status is awarded through a nomination by, and a simple
+majority vote of, the relevant repository's existing Component Owners. For
+the full requirements and process, see the
+[Contributor section](CONTRIBUTOR_LADDER.md#contributor) of
+[CONTRIBUTOR_LADDER.md](CONTRIBUTOR_LADDER.md).