Project leadership is provided by a group of contributors, known as the MDAnalysis Core Developers (@MDAnalysis/coredevs) who have produced substantial contributions over an extended period and who actively review issues and participate in discussions on GitHub Discussions and Discord.
The Core Developers lead the MDAnalysis project and are responsible to the community and to NumFOCUS, our fiscal sponsor. They represent the project publicly and vote to make decisions for the project.
Principal Investigators (PIs) on a grant submitted by MDAnalysis via NumFOCUS must be Core Developers while co-PIs do not have to be Core Developers.
Core Developers are granted commit rights (write access) to the GitHub source code repositories and thus can approve pull requests for merges.
The current @MDAnalysis/coredevs team (“MDAnalysis Core Developers”) consists of:
Emerita/Emeritus Core Developers are former Core Developers who remain connected to the project but have stepped back from the day-to-day decision making. Emeriti Core Developers can reinstate themselves to Core Developer status.
Emeriti Core Developers maintain commit rights (write access) to the GitHub source code repositories and can approve pull requests for merges.
The current Emeriti Core Developers are:
A simple majority is defined as more than half the votes
cast. Abstentions or blanks are excluded in calculating a
majority vote. Totals do not include votes cast by someone not
entitled to vote2 or improper multiple votes by a single
member. Illegal votes3 are counted as votes cast;
if only two choices (such as a binary “yes”/”no” vote) are
possible, a majority vote is more “yes” than “no” votes. ↩
See MDAnalysis Core Developers for the list of individuals entitled to vote. ↩
Illegal votes are votes that were cast for ineligible choices. ↩
