Electron Governance is a public repository documenting the organizational structure and decision-making processes for the Electron project.
The repository addresses how a large open-source project coordinates work across multiple domains. Electron uses a Working Group model where specialized teams oversee different aspects of the ecosystem: API design, community safety, ecosystem health, outreach, releases, security, infrastructure upgrades, and administrative conflict resolution. Each Working Group maintains its own charter, meeting notes, and decision-making rules, with a rotating chair model to distribute leadership responsibility.
This repository is essential for contributors and maintainers who need to understand how Electron makes decisions and where to engage on specific topics. The structure suits projects large enough to require specialized focus areas but that want to maintain transparent, distributed governance rather than top-down control. The Working Group approach means decisions happen closer to the relevant expertise, and meeting notes are publicly available so the community can follow discussions and outcomes.
The project maintains active documentation of governance structures with regularly updated meeting notes across all Working Groups, indicating ongoing engagement with the governance model rather than static documentation. The repository demonstrates consistent use of the rotating chair model and explicit commitment to good-faith collaboration between groups, suggesting the governance system is actively tested and refined through practice.
