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# Governance
The Qt Project is a meritocratic, consensus-based community. Anyone with an
interest in Qt can join it, take part in its decision-making, and contribute to
Qt's development.
and is the authoritative text. It describes five levels of involvement and how
people move between them:
* **Users** — community members who use Qt. They report bugs, help other
users, and advocate for the project.
* **Contributors** — community members who provide input to the project, by
proposing changes in Gerrit, reviewing, writing documentation, or testing.
There is no selection process.
* **Approvers** — contributors who have shown a sustained commitment to the
project and who can approve changes for inclusion.
* **Maintainers** — approvers responsible for a specific area of Qt, who
decide what happens in the code they maintain.
* **Chief Maintainer** — leads the maintainer group, sets the overall
direction of the project, and has the final say when the project fails to
reach consensus.
The current maintainers are listed at
For the processes that sit alongside this model — the branch policy, the
security policy, the code of conduct, and the rest — see