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governance
- Jun 10, 2026 What a Neutral Foundation Holds and What It Cannot Change Foundations exist to hold the assets a project cannot own as a group: copyright title, trademarks, funds and release infrastructure; their legal form decides what they can do, and neutrality is a matter of procedure rather than of intent. computing history
- May 18, 2026 Error Budget Policy: Freezes, Exemptions, and Escalation Arithmetic How a budget becomes an enforceable rule, why a freeze that everyone can override is worse than none, and how exemption quotas are computed from the budget itself. observability
- Feb 27, 2026 Maintainer Authority and the Fork as an Exit Mechanism How merge rights, review conventions and ownership files concentrate control of a project that no license grants anyone, and why the license makes forking always possible while the trademarks and distribution channels make it expensive. computing history
- Nov 17, 2025 Relicensing a Mature Project: Consent, Forks, and Downstream Effects Changing a project license is a copyright transaction with every rightsholder in the tree, not a policy announcement; the routes that avoid consent, the audit that establishes who must be asked, and what a change cannot reach. computing history
- Jan 30, 2023 Registry Allocation: First Come, First Served and Its Failure Modes How a single registry clerk in the early Internet years allocated namespaces, why the policy scaled badly, and what the replacement bodies inherited. computing history