# Guiding principles for the forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana

**URL:** <https://forum.opensearch.org/t/guiding-principles-for-the-forks-of-elasticsearch-and-kibana/5290>\
**Category:** OpenDistro\
**Tags:** security-issue\
**Created:** [March 11, 2021, 12:28am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/guiding-principles-for-the-forks-of-elasticsearch-and-kibana/5290 "2021-03-11T00:28:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![dawnfoster](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/dawnfoster/32/1201_2.png) [@dawnfoster](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/dawnfoster)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2021, 8:55am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/guiding-principles-for-the-forks-of-elasticsearch-and-kibana/5290/11 "2021-03-12T08:55:29Z")

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In an effort to help separate the governance topic from the principles, I dropped a few thoughts into a [new thread about governance](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/governance-for-the-forks/5310).

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