# The future of Homebrew

**URL:** <https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/the-future-of-homebrew/156>\
**Category:** Governance\
**Created:** [February 16, 2019, 3:54pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/the-future-of-homebrew/156 "2019-02-16T15:54:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![jdorfman](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sustainoss.org/jdorfman/32/14_2.png) [@jdorfman](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/jdorfman)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2019, 3:54pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/the-future-of-homebrew/156/1 "2019-02-16T15:54:41Z")

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Fellow sustainer, Mike McQuaid announced recently:

> <https://twitter.com/MikeMcQuaid/status/1092448260835430400>

Before stepping down as lead maintainer, he created a pull request: [Add/link Homebrew Governance document](https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/5739).

At this time it isn’t merged but I look forward to reading the `GOVERNANCE.md`

What are your thoughts?

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**Author:** ![GeorgLink](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sustainoss.org/georglink/32/19_2.png) [@GeorgLink](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/GeorgLink)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 2:31pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/the-future-of-homebrew/156/2 "2019-03-19T14:31:30Z")

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I think it is great that Homebrew is documenting its governance. Having an elected project leads introduces more democracy, which has its up sides and down sides.

I see documented governance to be increasingly important. For the CHAOSS project, I recently started an effort to create a [Community Handbook](https://github.com/chaoss/governance/pull/90), which is inspired by the [Handbook from GitLab](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/).