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Update Governance for Teams to Discussions migration #2120

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## Structure

The openHAB project is a big ecosystem of different components.
While people often think of the runtime + addons when talking about openHAB, there are other parts like openHAB Cloud, the mobile apps, the voice skills, etc. - all in all, there are well over [40 different repos](https://github.com/openhab) under the openHAB GitHub organization.
While people often think of the runtime + addons when talking about openHAB, there are other parts like openHAB Cloud, the mobile apps, the voice skills, etc. - all in all, there are well over [40 different repos](https://github.com/orgs/openhab/repositories) under the openHAB GitHub organization.

The different components are mostly maintained independently of each other. Many have their own release cycles and a dedicated maintainer team.

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- sync with other maintainer teams wrt cross-team changes
- announce important news in the community

In general, a maintainer team is free to define its own rules of how the work in the team is organized, e.g. what is required for a PR to be accepted. Those rules should be written down as a pinned discussion on the GitHub team page, see [this one](https://github.com/orgs/openhab/teams/2-x-add-ons-maintainers) as an example.
In general, a maintainer team is free to define its own rules of how the work in the team is organized, e.g. what is required for a PR to be accepted. Those rules should be written down as a pinned discussion on the GitHub Discussions page, see [this one](https://github.com/openhab/openhab-addons/discussions/14694) as an example.

A [couple of rules](https://github.com/orgs/openhab/teams/maintainers/discussions/1) must be followed by all maintainer teams, they ensure that there's some consistency in the workflows across the different repositories.
A [couple of rules](https://github.com/openhab/openhab-distro/discussions/1505) must be followed by all maintainer teams, they ensure that there's some consistency in the workflows across the different repositories.

### Maintainer Elections

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The Architecture Council is responsible for all decisions that have a significant impact across different components and which touch any fundamental concepts how openHAB works and behaves.

Discussions and decisions are done on the [Github team page](https://github.com/orgs/openhab/teams/architecture-council).
Discussions and decisions are done in the [GitHub AC Discussions](https://github.com/openhab/openhab-distro/discussions/categories/architecture-council-discussions).
Decisions are taken unanimously.
This is the case if no member of the AC vetos against a proposed resolution within a week of the call for votes on the topic.

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