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🔴 (20:45) User supplied competing codings for opentofu-github-pr-1010: Luna A classified the TSC’s January 10 GA launch-date decision as control_event/product, announced_on=2023-12-14, body_patch_relation=patch_only, with no power changes and no evidence that GA occurred; Luna B classified the registry-namespace and GA-timing decisions as control_event/product, announced_on=2023-12-14, body_patch_relation=consistent; Terra advisory classified the December 11 TSC summary as control_event/product, announced_on=2023-12-11, body_patch_relation=consistent, noting differing December 5 and December 11 registry-namespace decisions and no demonstrated implementation. (meaning December 11–14, 2023)
🔴 (20:46) User supplied competing codings for opentofu-github-pr-1107: Luna A and Luna B classified the proposal for static evaluation of locals and variables in module sources/backends as control_event/product, announced_on=2024-01-11, with no power changes; Luna A used body_patch_relation=consistent and noted the PR was closed and unmerged, while Luna B used not_applicable; Terra advisory classified it no_event, body_patch_relation=consistent, because the closed, unmerged draft contained product implementation work but no organizational-rights change or demonstrated release. (meaning January 11, 2024)
🔴 (20:46) User supplied codings for opentofu-github-pr-1152: Luna A and Luna B both classified the merged addition of a TSC governance summary/current members as no_event, with body_patch_relation=consistent and no power changes; Luna A explicitly said it documented existing TSC decision authority and membership rather than changing organizational rights. Terra advisory was null.
🔴 (20:46) User supplied competing codings for opentofu-github-pr-1650: Luna A and Luna B classified the addition of missing TSC meeting summaries through May 2024 as no_event, body_patch_relation=consistent, and no power changes; Luna B used announced_on=2024-05-15, while Luna A used no announcement date. (meaning May 15, 2024)
🔴 (20:46) User supplied Terra advisory’s coding of opentofu-github-pr-1650 as announced_institutional_change/board_or_steering, announced_on=2024-05-15, body_patch_relation=consistent, confidence 0.75, concerning regular publication of TSC meeting summaries. (meaning May 15, 2024)
🔴 (20:46) User supplied the announced inform edge for opentofu-github-pr-1650: actor=TSC members who take notes, direction=added, change_status=announced, target=public notes, scope=TSC meetings; evidence was body quote “TSC members who take notes will now post these regularly” and patch quote “From now on, whomever takes notes during the TSC meeting will also open the PR posting the public notes”.
🔴 (20:46) User supplied the governance directive: “From now on, whomever takes notes during the TSC meeting will also open the PR posting the public notes”.
🔴 (20:47) User supplied unanimous classification of opentofu-github-pr-2830 by Luna A, Luna B, and Terra advisory as an effective_institutional_change, announced 2025-05-20 and effective 2025-05-23, implementing OpenTofu’s Charter and Governance; Luna A used event_kind=control_rights and body_patch_relation=consistent, Luna B used event_kind=board_or_steering and patch_supersedes_body, and Terra used event_kind=board_or_steering and consistent. (meaning May 20–23, 2025)
🔴 (20:47) User supplied Luna A’s effective edges for opentofu-github-pr-2830, all direction=added: (1) The Technical Steering Committee (the “TSC”) gains set_strategy over technical oversight/direction of the OpenTofu project; (2) the TSC gains approve over a Contributor becoming a Committer; (3) the TSC gains remove over a Committer by majority approval; (4) The TSC gains elect over the TSC Chair; (5) LF Projects gains own over Project Trademarks.
🔴 (20:47) User supplied Luna B’s effective edges for opentofu-github-pr-2830, all direction=added: (1) TSC gains approve over a Contributor becoming a Committer; (2) TSC gains remove over a Committer; (3) TSC gains appoint over representatives working with other open-source/open-standards communities or organizations; (4) TSC gains delegate of decision-making authority to maintainers of projects under the OpenTofu GitHub organization; (5) TSC gains override over those maintainers’ decisions.
🔴 (20:47) User supplied Terra advisory’s effective edges for opentofu-github-pr-2830, all direction=added: (1) the TSC gains approve over promotion of a Contributor to Committer; (2) the TSC gains remove over Committer status; (3) The TSC gains override over decisions across all projects in the OpenTofu organization. Each edge cited merged PR metadata "merged": true, "merged_at": "2025-05-23T12:18:56Z" in addition to charter text. (meaning May 23, 2025)
🔴 (20:47) User supplied that the selected patch for opentofu-github-pr-2830 was truncated: Luna A said the visible merged patch nevertheless implemented its coded changes; Luna B warned additional changes might be omitted; Terra noted the Charter identifies itself as an amendment and that the supplied evidence does not fully reveal prior governance rules or every changed file.
🔴 (20:51) User supplied the opentofu-github-pr-1650 body text: title Add Technical Steering Committee missing Summarries through 2024 May; it added the latest TSC meeting summary, backtracked older unposted minutes, and stated “TSC members who take notes will now post these regularly.”
🔴 (20:52) User supplied SHA-256 checksums: 2a62ab05687982c112a29f6126227c26c3ff8defc89ca64662753aaf85c3c0ce for cases/review/oss-governance-adjudication-v1/documents.json; 14644759f53071adfe1173d4e25bb01931b8c1591fa8a48295dbd0556a754769 for cases/review/oss-governance-adjudication-v1/v1.2-coding-package.json.
🔴 (20:52) User supplied a patch adding the 2024-05-07 TSC summary and its agenda item RFC: Init-time Constant Evaluation Proposal, linked to https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/issues/1042; the proposal described a composable language mechanism supporting module sources with variables/locals, provider for_each, module provider mappings, backend configurations with variables/locals, known lifecycle attributes, and known variable defaults/validation, while explicitly not proposing to implement every listed issue in one PR or feature. (meaning May 7, 2024)
🟡 (20:52) Assistant resolved the disputed records by stating: the three feature/forum issues and the unmerged implementation PR establish no institutional claim; registry and TSC-decision records are controls; the note-publication rule is an announced governance change; and the merged charter is effective but bounded by the truncated patch selection.
🔴 (20:53) User supplied exact charter evidence that a Contributor may become a Committer by TSC approval, a Committer may be removed by majority TSC approval, the TSC may elect a TSC Chair, and LF Projects will hold title to all Project Trademarks.
🔴 (20:53) User supplied exact governance evidence: “The TSC has ultimate authority over all projects in the OpenTofu organization”; “The TSC may delegate decision-making authority to maintainers of specific projects”; and the TSC retains the right to overrule maintainers’ decisions as necessary, though it should exercise restraint.
🔴 (20:53) User supplied metadata for merged opentofu-github-pr-2830: base_sha=6f0d3d3a07a49309b30960d57225c9f7c701e9a9, head_sha=da4ac00ca09d1d9e06e47efd77523a235d49f10c, merge_commit_sha=59d24390b712b87954ee175c38912e56d8f5d974, changed_files=43, draft=false, merged=true, merged_at=2025-05-23T12:18:56Z, state=closed. (meaning May 23, 2025)
🔴 (20:56) User supplied metadata for merged opentofu-github-pr-1650: base_sha=da1471b8ce5042ce93ffb762800e94f94fb3a6d2, head_sha=0e5a064c6eef77f22205ae307352ecb141515e63, merge_commit_sha=2ef3047ec6bb266e8d91c55519967212c1a0975d, changed_files=1, draft=false, merged=true, merged_at=2024-05-16T06:28:54Z, state=closed. (meaning May 16, 2024)
🔴 (20:57) User supplied charter provisions that amending the Charter requires a two-thirds vote of the entire TSC and LF Projects approval, and that the TSC must document decisions in a public file in the main Project repository no later than 14 days after each vote, including detailed pre-vote discussion notes when the decision contains no confidential information.
🔴 (21:00) User supplied the Replace Official Registry record: because of the Public Terraform Registry Terms of Service change, OpenTF would not use it as the default registry but sought a drop-in-compatible replacement preserving provider/module references, including indirect references.
🔴 (21:00) User supplied stable-registry requirements including provider-author-controlled artifact URL replacement: the design must permit swapping a provider’s artifact download URL to a third party without end-user configuration changes—for example, to “switch to a CDN or other download location” if GitHub release artifacts become unsuitable.
🔴 (21:00) User supplied additional stable-registry requirements: drop-in provider/module resolution; automatic pickup of new versions; author submission/revocation/update of public keys; signature security at least matching HashiCorp’s registry; redirecting hashicorp providers to the opentofu namespace; provider-version warnings; thousands of concurrent executions by one identity without rate limiting; a human-readable discovery/documentation UI; viable multi-region failover; high security; low maintenance; fully open-source implementation; desirable download statistics, V1 provider/module protocol compatibility, and easy mirror hosting.
🔴 (21:00) User supplied that RFC submissions/discussion were due October 27, 2023, after which the TSC would vote on a stable-registry design. (meaning October 27, 2023)
🔴 (21:00) User supplied that on November 3, 2023 the TSC chose the Homebrew-like registry design for implementation because it had the least maintenance burden, maximized availability through static-file hosting, maximized transparency through a Git-repository design, and decoupled artifact resolution from documentation service; other design RFCs would be closed. (meaning November 3, 2023)
🔴 (21:01) User supplied the full amended Technical Charter (the “Charter”) for OpenTofu a Series of LF Projects, LLC, showing initial adoption on September 15, 2023 and amendment on May 20, 2025. (meaning September 15, 2023 and May 20, 2025)
🔴 (21:01) User supplied charter voting rules: decisions primarily use consensus; in-meeting votes require at least 50% of voting TSC members present and ordinarily pass by majority of votes cast; asynchronous motions require affirmative votes from at least 50% of all voting TSC members; supermajority votes require two-thirds of all voting members and permit a requested 14-calendar-day postponement; unresolved votes may be referred by any voting member to the Series Manager.
🔴 (21:01) User supplied the TSC voting cap: when the TSC has at least 5 members, members employed by one company or related-company group have combined votes capped at 2; when the TSC has 4 or fewer members, the cap is 1.
🔴 (21:01) User supplied that supermajority voting is required for Charter amendments, Project legal matters, and approval of alternative licenses; asynchronous votes must provide all voting TSC members at least 14 calendar days of verifiable notice.
🔴 (21:01) User supplied that OpenTofu’s default inbound and outbound code license is Mozilla Public License Version 2.0, inbound code requires Developer Certificate of Origin sign-off through a TSC-approved process, documentation uses Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, and alternative inbound/outbound licenses require a two-thirds vote of the entire TSC.
🔴 (21:01) User supplied charter transparency requirements: TSC decisions must be publicly documented within 14 days; Project discussions, proposals, timelines, decisions, and status should be open and easily visible; potential transparency violations should be reported immediately to the Series Manager.
🔴 (21:04) User supplied a TSC agenda statement: “The TSC never posted on GitHub summary since February”. (meaning since February 2024)
🔴 (21:04) User supplied the follow-up ownership action: @Roni Frantchi would backtrack and post summaries for all TSC meetings dating back to February. (meaning February–May 2024)
🔴 (21:04) User supplied the resulting directive: “From now on, whomever takes notes during the TSC meeting will also open the PR posting the public notes”.
🔴 (21:04) User supplied that the TSC decided “Yes” on changing the documentation license in the Charter to Mozilla as requested by the Linux Foundation.

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