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OpenWDL Governance and Process

WDL has a community-driven development process where most decisions are made through consensus, under the stewardship of a 'core team'. The core team is responsible for steering the design and development process, overseeing the introduction of new features, setting priorities and release schedule, and ultimately making decisions for the rare instances where there is no community consensus.

Current core team members are:

Name Organization github
Jeff Gentry Foundation Medicine geoffjentry
Mike Lin DNAnexus mlin
Patrick Magee DNAstack patmagee
Brian O'Connor University of California, Santa Cruz briandoconnor
Geraldine Van der Auwera Broad Institute vdauwera
Christopher Llanwarne Broad Institute cjllanwarne
John Didion DNAnexus jdidion

At the core group's discretion a new member may be added by a majority vote. This addition will be done to recognize significant contributions to the community. Contributions include such things as:

  • Active participation in discussions, mailing list, forums
  • Community building efforts
  • Helping with documentation, standards documents, etc
  • Building supporting software and tooling

Generally members are only removed at their own request are due to very long term inactivity. In extreme circumstances the core group can vote to remove a member.

RFC Process

Any changes submitted to the WDL Specification are subject to the RFC Process. Please review and familiarize yourself with the process if you would like to see changes submitted to the specification.