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GitHub serves as the platform where open-source projects host their GOVERNANCE.md files to document project policies and roles, as established by GitHub's official documentation [1] and community standards [2]. Researchers analyze these specific files within GitHub repositories to extract governance structures {fact:1, fact:5} for prominent projects like Docker and Jupyter [3].

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Patterns in the Transition From Founder-Leadership to Community ... arxiv.org arXiv 3 facts

claimThe open-source software community has developed a standard for defining project governance on GitHub by using a uniform location and format for governing documents, specifically the GOVERNANCE.md file.

referenceThe Institutional Grammar (IG) framework, developed by Ostrom (2009) and Crawford and Ostrom (1995), is used to extract governance structures from GOVERNANCE.md constitution files in GitHub projects.

claimInfluential open-source projects on GitHub, including node.js, Docker, and Jupyter, utilize public GOVERNANCE.md files to document policies regarding contributions, donations, planning, and other governance functions.

Governance in Practice: How Open Source Projects Define ... - arXiv arxiv.org arXiv 2 facts

procedureThe authors of 'Governance in Practice: How Open Source Projects Define and Document Roles' analyzed governance as an institutional infrastructure by using Institutional Grammar to extract and formalize role definitions from GOVERNANCE.md files in GitHub repositories.

procedureThe researchers restricted their search for governance documentation to files containing the term 'governance,' based on GitHub's official documentation identifying GOVERNANCE.md as a file describing project governance.