WDL has a community-driven development process where most decisions are made through consensus, under the stewardship of a 'core team'. The core team is responsible for steering the design and development process, overseeing the introduction of new features, setting priorities and release schedule, and ultimately making decisions for the rare instances where there is no community consensus.
Current core team members are:
| Name | Organization | github |
|---|---|---|
| Jeff Gentry | Fulcrum Genomics | geoffjentry |
| Mike Lin | Chan Zuckerberg Initiative | mlin |
| Patrick Magee | DNAstack | patmagee |
| Brian O'Connor | University of California, Santa Cruz | briandoconnor |
| Geraldine Van der Auwera | Broad Institute | vdauwera |
| Christopher Llanwarne | Broad Institute | cjllanwarne |
| John Didion | Fulcrum Genomics | jdidion |
| Michael Franklin | Centre for Population Genomics | illusional |
| Taylor Firman | Fred Hutch | tefirman |
| Ruben Vorderman | Leiden University Medical Center | rhpvorderman |
| Venkat Malladi | Microsoft | vsmalladi |
At the core group's discretion a new member may be added by a majority vote. This addition will be done to recognize significant contributions to the community. Contributions include such things as:
- Active participation in discussions, mailing list, forums
- Community building efforts
- Helping with documentation, standards documents, etc
- Building supporting software and tooling
Generally members are only removed at their own request are due to very long term inactivity. In extreme circumstances the core group can vote to remove a member.
Any changes submitted to the WDL Specification are subject to the RFC Process. Please review and familiarize yourself with the process if you would like to see changes submitted to the specification.