FreeBSD Doceng Team Charter
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The doceng@ team is a body to oversee the FreeBSD Documentation
Project. The main responsibilities of this team are:

- To grant approval for new documentation committers. Documentation
  includes articles and books, website pages, manual pages, release
  notes and translations of the above. There are two kinds of doc
  commit bits: translator commit bit, which is limited to translations
  in a particular language and full commit bit, which is only granted
  to aspirants, who have shown enough English technical writing
  skills,

- To prioritize and steer future directions for the documentation set
  and documentation infrastructure in the project,

- To maintain the doc project primer, which documents best practices
  for the FreeBSD Documentation Project,

- To manage the doc tree release process. This includes coordinating
  the release documentation updates with the various translation
  teams, coordinating with the release engineering team to tag the doc
  tree during the release cycle, and documenting these procedures,

- To ensure that the documentation published on the Internet by the
  project is up to date with respect to the source files in the
  repository. This includes making sure the project's infrastructure
  to build them is functioning correctly, and also involves working
  with the clusteradm team to get access to the project's machine and
  network resources,

- To act as MAINTAINER or to work in coordination with existing
  MAINTAINERs of the documentation toolchains in the FreeBSD Ports
  Collection to ensure them are in good working order,

- To maintain the sanctity of the FreeBSD doc tree. Due to the
  visibility of these files and documents to the outside world,
  doceng@ reserves the right to immediately backout (or fix without
  waiting for response from the original committer) changes that
  introduce degradations of the quality or the accessibility of the
  FreeBSD documentation,

- To appoint and oversee a FreeBSD Webmaster Team that carries out
  daily maintenance of the project web servers in collaboration with
  other teams,

- To act as first arbiter in the case of technical disputes related to
  the documentation and the doc tree.

This charter has been appointed by the FreeBSD Core Team since [When].
Any changes to it requires an approval from the FreeBSD Core Team.

Current Membership
==================

The current members of this team are Glen Barber, Warren Block, Marc
Fonvieille, Gabor Kovesdan, Benedict Reuschling, Hiroki Sato, and
Ryusuke SUZUKI.  Mateusz Piotrowski has been appointed as the doceng
secretary.

New Doc Committers
==================

New doc committers are approved by doceng@ with a vote through email.
This voting is conducted basically based on the rules of Core's voting
procedure (https://www.freebsd.org/internal/core-vote.html) except for
a two-week timeout.  When a commit bit proposal is accepted, doceng@
sends out an acceptance email to the mentor and the new committer with
core@ and accounts@ CC'ed.

Idle Doc Committers
===================

Doc Committers that have not made a commit in 18 months will be
contacted by a doceng@ member and without a response after a delay of
2 weeks, these committers will be automatically removed from the
access file. In case of no response, doceng@ will also contact core@
about the idle committers. Committers that wish to get back their
commit bits will have to reapply with the appropriate authority.

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