GRADUATION: Write up the Governance and Steering documents

GOVERNANCE.md

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+# cert-manager Governance
+
+This document defines project governance for the cert-manager project.
+
+## Contributors
+
+cert-manager is for everyone. Anyone can become a cert-manager contributor
+simply by contributing to the project, whether through code, documentation, blog
+posts, community management, or other means. As with all cert-manager community
+members, contributors are expected to follow the [cert-manager Code of
+Conduct][coc].
+
+All contributions to cert-manager code, documentation, or other components in
+the cert-manager GitHub org must follow the guidelines in [the contributing
+page][contrib]. Whether these contributions are merged into the project is the
+prerogative of the maintainers.
+
+## Maintainers
+
+Maintainers have the ability to merge code into the project. Anyone can become a
+cert-manager maintainer (see "Becoming a maintainer" below.)
+
+> **Note:** In some CNCF projects, a difference is made between a "committer"
+> and a "maintainer" (cf. [committer-vs-maintainer][]). In the context of the
+> cert-manager project, committer and maintainer are the same. We will be using
+> the term "maintainer" throughout this document.
+
+[committer-vs-maintainer]: https://github.com/cncf/toc/pull/876#issuecomment-1189399941
+
+The cert-manager maintainers are:
+
+- James Munnelly (@munnerz)
+- Josh van Leeuwen (@joshvanl)
+- Richard Wall (@wallrj)
+- Jake Sanders (@jakexks)
+- Maël Valais (@maelvls)
+- Irbe Krumina (@irbekrm)
+- Ashley Davis (@sgtcodfish)
+- Tim Ramlot (@inteon)
+
+This list is reflected in `OWNERS` files present at the root of the projects
+within the cert-manager organization.
+
+### Maintainers Responsibilities
+
+cert-manager maintainers are expected to:
+
+- Review pull requests, triage issues, and fix bugs in their areas of expertise,
+  ensuring that all changes go through the project's code review and integration
+  processes.
+- Monitor cncf-cert-manager-\* emails and the cert-manager-dev and
+  cert-manager-dev channels on Slack, and help out when possible.
+- Rapidly respond to any time-sensitive security release processes.
+- Attend meetings with the cert-manager Steering Committee.
+
+### Maintainer Decision-Making
+
+Ideally, all project decisions are resolved by maintainer consensus. If this is
+not possible, maintainers may call a vote. The voting process is a simple
+majority in which each maintainer receives one vote.
+
+### Becoming a Maintainer
+
+Anyone can become a cert-manager maintainer. Maintainers should be proficient in
+Go; have expertise in at least one of the domains (Kubernetes, PKI, ACME); have
+the time and ability to meet the maintainer expectations above; and demonstrate
+the ability to work with the existing maintainers and project processes.
+
+To become a maintainer, start by expressing interest to existing maintainers.
+Existing maintainers will then ask you to demonstrate the qualifications above
+by contributing PRs, doing code reviews, and other such tasks under their
+guidance. After several months of working together, maintainers will decide
+whether to grant maintainer status.
+
+### Stepping Down as a Maintainer
+
+If a maintainer is no longer interested in or cannot perform the duties listed
+above, they should move themselves to emeritus status. If necessary, this can
+also occur through the decision-making process outlined above.
+
+A review of the OWNERS file is performed every year by the current maintainers.
+During this review, the maintainers that have not been active in the last year
+are asked whether they would like to become an emeritus maintainer.
+
+[coc]: https://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
+[contrib]: https://cert-manager.io/docs/contributing/
+
+### Emeriti Maintainers
+
+Former maintainers include:
+
+- Maartje Eyskens (@meyskens)
+- Joakim Ahrlin (@jahrlin)

STEERING.md

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+# Steering Committee Charter
+
+The goal of the cert-manager Steering Committee is to ensure that cert-manager
+meets the needs of its current and future users. The Steering Committee
+represents the voice of the user, and works with the cert-manager maintainers to
+help guide development efforts towards solving concrete and immediate problems
+for cert-manager adopters.
+
+The members of the Steering Committee are:
+
+- TBD
+
+## Steering Committee Responsibilities
+
+The Steering Committee’s responsibilities are to:
+
+1. Provide feedback to project maintainers about cert-manager's featureset, UX,
+   and operational model.
+2. Assist cert-manager maintainers in prioritizing upcoming roadmap items and
+   planned work.
+3. Represent the "voice of the cert-manager user" both internally and to the
+   broader community.
+4. Provide neutral mediation for non-technical disputes.
+5. Develop and maintain a project continuity plan.
+
+## Steering Committee Membership
+
+The Steering Committee comprises at most 7 people. To be eligible for membership
+in the Steering Committee, you must:
+
+1. Be responsible for a production cert-manager deployment of non-trivial size
+2. Be willing and able to attend regularly-scheduled Steering Committee meetings
+3. Abide by cert-manager's Code of Conduct.
+
+Candidates for membership will be nominated by current Steering Committee
+members or by cert-manager maintainers. If there are more nominations than
+Steering Committee seats remaining, the same group shall vote on the candidates,
+and the candidates with the most votes will become Steering Committee members.
+Any ties will be broken by cert-manager maintainers.
+
+Membership expires if any of the eligibility conditions is unmet, or after one
+year. Members may seek reinstatement immediately in accordance with the rules
+above.
+
+## Steering Committee Meetings
+
+Meetings will happen periodically not less than once a quarter. Recordings and
+minutes will be posted publicly.
+
+## Changes to this charter
+
+Changes to this document must be approved by a majority of Steering Committee
+members and a majority of cert-manager maintainers, except for the list of
+steering committee members that may be changed under the conditions listed under
+"Steering Committee Membership".