Repository stewards

People with governance responsibility on the BPS GitHub repository. ESA oversight is separate from day-to-day maintainer review.

Processor-level contacts are in Processor leads.

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ESA representatives on the repository

Name	Affiliation	Scope
Klaus Scipal	ESA	ESA final authority (disputes, release gate)
Clement Albinet	ESA	ESA repository representative

Both are required reviewers on VERSION and CHANGELOG.md via CODEOWNERS. Klaus Scipal has final ESA authority on release promotion and governance disputes.

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Core maintainers

Industrial partners with repository write access and merge responsibility.

Name	Affiliation	Role
Giovanni Amoroso	Aresys	Project development and maintenance
Riccardo Piantanida	Aresys	Technical lead (BPS)
Matteo Aletti	Aresys	Core development and maintenance
Yoann Rey-Ricord	ACRI-ST	Open Science and community

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Institutional partners

Organisations that employ maintainers or scientific module experts:

• ACRI-ST

• Aresys

• CESBIO

• Chalmers University

• CNRS

• DLR

• DTU

• ESA

• Politecnico di Milano

• Wageningen University & Research

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