This repository contains the technical policies and procedures established by the OpenSSL Foundation and the OpenSSL Corporation in accordance with the project bylaws.
The policies are stored in the policies subdirectory, each in
a separate markdown file called policy-name.md where policy-name is a short
memorable description of the policy such as voting-procedure, design-process,
or similar.
New policies or changes to existing policies are proposed and discussed in pull requests and issues of this repository, and finally merged after an approval by the directors of the OpenSSL Foundation and the OpenSSL Corporation.
Previously when the OpenSSL Technical Committee was in place the policies were added or changed by voting. The records of the historical policy votes are stored in the votes subdirectory, each in a separate file.