Initial PR outlining the governance for the project

CONTRIBUTING.md

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 Welcome and thank you for wanting to contribute!
 
+# Project governance
+
+The Valkey project is led by a Technical Steering Committee, whose responsibilities are laid out in [GOVERNANCE.md](GOVERNANCE.md).
+
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GOVERNANCE.md

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+# Project Governance
+
+The Valkey project is managed by a Technical Steering Committee (TSC) composed of the maintainers of Valkey repository.
+The Valkey project includes all of the current and future repositories under the Valkey-io organization.
+Maintainers are defined as individuals with full commit access to the Valkey repository as well as additional members defined in the MAINTAINERS.md file in a given projects repository.
+Maintainers of other repositories within the Valkey project are not members of the TSC unless explicitly added.
+
+## Technical Steering Committee
+
+The TSC will be responsible for oversight of all technical, project, approval, and policy matters for Valkey.
+
+The TSC members are listed in the [MAINTAINERS.md](MAINTAINERS.md) file in the Valkey repository.
+Maintainers (and accordingly, TSC members) may be added or removed by no less than 2/3 affirmative vote of the current TSC.
+The TSC will appoint a Chair responsible for organizing TSC meetings.
+If the TSC Chair is removed from the TSC (or the Chair steps down from that role), it is the responsibility of the TSC to appoint a new Chair.
+The TSC can amend this governance document by no less than a 2/3 affirmative vote.
+
+The TSC may, at its discretion, add or remove members who are not maintainers of the main Valkey repository.
+The TSC may, at its discretion, add or remove maintainers from other repositories within the Valkey project.
+
+## Voting
+
+The TSC will strive for all decisions to be made by consensus.
+While explicit agreement of the entire TSC is preferred, it is not required for consensus.
+Rather, the TSC will determine consensus based on their good faith consideration of a number of factors, including the dominant view of the TSC and nature of support and objections.
+The TSC will document evidence of consensus in accordance with these requirements.
+If consensus cannot be reached, the TSC will make the decision by a vote.
+
+A vote will also be called when an issue or pull request is marked as a major decision, which are decisions that have significant impact on the Valkey architecture or design.
+Examples of major decisions:
+    * Fundamental changes to the Valkey core datastructures
+    * Adding a new data structure or API
+    * Changes that affect backward compatibility
+    * New user visible fields that need to be maintained
+    * Modifications to the TSC or other governance documents
+    * Adding members to other roles within the Valkey project
+    * Delegation of maintainership for projects to other groups or individuals
+
+Any member of the TSC can call a vote with reasonable notice to the TSC, setting out a discussion period and a separate voting period.
+Any discussion may be conducted in person or electronically by text, voice, or video.
+The discussion will be open to the public, with the notable exception of discussions involving embargoed security issues or the addition or removal of maintainers, which will be private.
+In any vote, each voting TSC member will have one vote.
+The TSC will give at least two weeks for all members to submit their vote.
+Except as specifically noted elsewhere in this document, decisions by vote require a simple majority vote of all voting members.
+It is the responsibility of the TSC chair to help facilitate the voting process as needed to make sure it completes within the voting period.
+
+## Termination of Membership
+
+A maintainer's access (and accordingly, their position on the TSC) will be removed if any of the following occur:
+
+* Resignation: Written notice of resignation to the TSC.
+* TSC Vote: 2/3 affirmative vote of the TSC to remove a member
+* Unreachable Member: If a member is unresponsive for more than six months, the remaining active members of the TSC may vote to remove to unreachable member by simple majority.
+
+## Technical direction for other Valkey projects
+
+The TSC may delegate decision making for other projects within the Valkey organization to the maintainers responsible for that project.
+Delegation of decision making for a project is considered a major decision, and should happen with an explicit vote.
+Projects within the Valkey organization must indicate the individuals with commit permissions by updating the MAINTAINERS.md within their repository.
+
+The TSC may, at its discretion, overrule the decisions made by other projects within the Valkey organization, although they should show restraint in doing so.
+
+## License of this document
+
+This document may be used, modified, and/or distributed under the terms of the
+[Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY) license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode).

MAINTAINERS.md

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+## Overview
+
+This document contains a list of maintainers in this repo.
+See [GOVERNANCE.md](GOVERNANCE.md) that explains the function of this file.
+
+## Current Maintainers
+
+| Maintainer          | GitHub ID                                       | Affiliation |
+| ------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- | ----------- |
+| Zhu Binbin          | [enjoy-binbin](https://github.com/enjoy-binbin) | Tencent     |
+| Wen Hui             | [hwware](https://github.com/hwware)             | Huawei      |
+| Madelyn Olson       | [madolson](https://github.com/madolson)         | Amazon      |
+| Ping Xie            | [pingxie](https://github.com/pingxie)           | Google      |
+| Zhao Zhao           | [soloestoy](https://github.com/soloestoy)       | Alibaba     |
+| Viktor Söderqvist  | [zuiderkwast](https://github.com/zuiderkwast)   | Ericsson    |
+
+
+### Former Maintainers
+
+| Maintainer          | GitHub ID                                       | Affiliation |
+| ------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- | ----------- |