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governance/chair-election-process.md

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+# TAG App Delivery Chair Election Process
+
+TBD

governance/roles.md

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+# Roles within the TAG App Delivery
+
+The TAG includes several key roles that are critical to the group's success.
+Beyond the roles described in this document the TAG has many contributors, all serving in varying capacities.
+
+- [Roles within the TAG App Delivery](#roles-within-the-tag-app-delivery)
+    - [Chair](#chair)
+    - [Technical lead](#technical-lead)
+    - [Working Group Lead](#working-group-lead)
+    - [TOC Liaison](#toc-liaison)
+    - [Emeritus Chair](#emeritus-chair)
+
+## Chair
+
+The (normally three) Co-Chairs of the TAG App Delivery drive the CNCF community efforts of the TAGs domain.
+Chairs are experienced leaders within the CNCF community with rooted expertise in the TAG area. Chairs serve a two-year term but may renew their term by submitting a follow-up application.
+Chair applications go through an [election process](https://github.com/cncf/toc/blob/master/tags/cncf-tags.md#elections) with a final CNCF TOC vote. The election process is defined [here](./chair-election-process.md)(WIP).
+
+Co-Chairs are expected to:
+* Manage the operations and governance of the group.
+* Organize, host, plan and facilitate TAG meetings and events.
+* Reporting to the CNCF TOC on the status of TAG work.
+* Encouraging community members to start projects and working groups.
+* Resolve technical difficulties and decisions related to multiple sub-projects.
+* Remind the community of the scope of the TAG and point out guardrails in discussions, working groups, and projects.
+* Serve as TAG leadership representative in CNCF project discussions and at community events.
+* Evolve the TAG to reflect ongoing changes in the industry.
+* Onboard and mentor new community members.
+* Mentor community members in a leadership role within the TAG.
+* Enforce and promote diversity in TAG work.
+* Enforce and promote good communication in TAG efforts in accordance with the [CNCF CoC](https://www.cncf.io/conduct/)
+
+Permissions:
+* Chairs have admin access to the TAG GitHub repository.
+
+## Technical Lead
+
+A technical lead (TL) expands the bandwidth of the leadership team in terms of covering technical areas, growing the community, organizing events or doing TAG communications.
+
+Proposals must have Chair as an active sponsor and the agreement of the majority of the current leadership team (Chairs, Tech Leads & Liaisons). TLs are experienced contributors within the CNCF community with rooted expertise in the TAG area. 
+
+Technical leads go through an [proposal process](./tech-lead-proposal-process.md) with a final CNCF TOC vote.
+
+**A technical lead is expected to**:
+* Establish and guide projects and working groups.
+* Resolve cross-sub-project technical difficulties and decisions.
+* Propose agenda items for meetings to ensure that open issues are discussed with the group when needed.
+* Serving as TAG leadership representative in CNCF project discussions and on community events.
+* Onboard and mentor new community members.
+* Mentor community members in a leadership role within the TAG.
+* Enforce and encourage diversity in the TAG efforts.
+* Enforce and encourage good communication in the TAG efforts following the [CNCF CoC](https://www.cncf.io/conduct/).
+* Support the TAG Chairs.
+
+Permissions:
+* Tech Leads have maintain access to the TAG GitHub repository.
+
+## Working Group Leads
+
+A working group chairs (usually 3) are experienced contributors to the TAG that applies to lead along one or two others a working group.
+Working groups as community governance structure are defined in the [CNCF TAG](https://github.com/cncf/toc/blob/master/tags) folder.
+TAG Chairs are responsible facilitating the working group applications and make sure that the process is done transparent, accessible and traceable for everyone.
+At least one of the TAG chairs or Tech Leads serves as the working group sponsor and provides guidance to the working group leads.
+Working group leads are signed off by the majority of the TAG Chairs and the TOC Liaisons.
+The [leadership election process is described here](template-leadership-election-process.md#working-group-lead).
+
+**A working group lead is expected to**:
+* Schedule, host, plan and facilitate meetings for the working group.
+* Provide technical direction unique to the working group.
+* Plan working group deliverables.
+* Report to the TAG on the working group status.
+* Evolve the working group.
+* Garner active participation.
+* Establish documents and correct permissions for contributions to occur.
+* Contribute content to the working group.
+* Onboard and setup the working group lead successor.
+
+Permissions:
+* WG Leads have write access to the TAG GitHub repository and CODEOWNERS entries for the working group folder.
+
+## TOC Liaison
+
+The [CNCF TAG](https://github.com/cncf/toc/blob/master/tags) process identifies a TOC Liaison.
+The TAG Chairs are responsible for establishing effective communication with the TOC Liaison, including further communication to the wider TOC upon request.
+
+The TOC Liaison will occasionally prioritize TAG activities, as needed by the TOC, to further the [CNCF mission](https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/master/charter.md#1-mission-of-the-cloud-native-computing-foundation).
+
+Permissions:
+* TOC Liaisons have admin access to the TAG GitHub repository.
+
+## Emeritus Chair
+
+After a TAG Chair completes their term, they transition into the role of Emeritus Chair.
+This role does not impose any obligations on the TAG, but it acknowledges their committed time and effort.
+The role also lets them share information about their previous work and contributions to the TAG.
+An Emeritus Chair retains the same rights/access as in their previous role.

governance/tech-lead-proposal-process.md

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+# TAG App Delivery Technical Lead Proposal Process
+
+App Delivery Technical Leads operate as a team alongside the Co-Chairs. The Co-Chair
+team seeks enhance the leadership capabilities of the existing co-chairs across
+the key qualities of industry experience, hands-on cloud-native and security
+experience, as well as administrative experience needed to assist in the
+execution of the various projects and efforts that make the TAG App Delivery so
+successful.
+
+## Caveats of Technical Leads
+
+* The position of a technical lead does not guarantee future co-chair nomination
+* The position of a technical lead is not a paid position (co-chairs are also
+  not paid positions)
+* Technical leads [have responsibilities](roles.md) to the App Delivery TAG, the
+  leadership team, and the TOC
+* Nominations still
+  [require TOC
+  approval](https://github.com/cncf/toc/blob/main/tags/cncf-tags.md#elections)
+
+## Process of nominations
+
+Depending on the needs of the community, as determined by the App Delivery TAG
+leadership team, technical lead nominations may come in the form of "Nominees by co-chairs" at the moment.
+
+The App Delivery TAG does not have a current limit on the amount of technical leads.
+
+Final technical lead nominations will adhere to the [CNCF's TOC described
+process](https://github.com/cncf/toc/blob/main/tags/cncf-tags.md#elections).
+
+### Nominees by co-chairs
+
+Nominees by co-chairs adhere to the technical lead requirements described below.
+Co-chairs are responsible for documenting statistic information of all nominee
+types for endorsement and presentation to the TOC.
+
+## Technical Lead nomination requirements
+
+In order to verify nominees by the community or by co-chairs have experience
+with the group and are actively contributing in a meaningful way, the following
+requirements must be met in order for an individual to be nominated.
+
+If a given nominee does not meet all the requirements, the co-chairs will still
+review the nomination and justification to determine if enough intent and
+commitment is present to move forward with an endorsement.
+
+Nominees must:
+
+* be the author of at least one pull request against the TAG App Delivery repository
+* be active in the community within the last 6 months prior to their nomination.
+* active - Attending at least 1 TAG App Delivery Regular Meeting a month
+* engaging in community chat via slack or lists
+* commenting on PRs and issues to drive suggestions to proposals, define scope,
+  resolve clarity issues, etc.
+* agree to the nomination
+
+Nominations must:
+
+* come from someone other than the nominee
+* have justification from the nominator regarding the nominee's capabilities
+
+### Justification for nominees
+
+To ensure nominations are thoughtful and supported, in addition to the above
+requirements, a justification must enumerate on the nominee's:
+
+* TAG App Delivery Community involvement
+* leadership skills
+* conflict resolution (technical and non-technical)
+* mentorship
+* willingness to learn and expand existing technical knowledge
+* and any known affiliations or group memberships (if applicable)
+
+## Announcing nomination results
+
+The co-chairs will release aggregate information about the nominees at the end
+of the nomination process once the Technical Leads have been put forward for
+approval by the TOC. Aggregate information will not include who nominated
+someone.