The Toolforge standards committee policies state:
Have signed the Wikimedia Foundation's Volunteer NDA before being appointed.
NDA protection is required for the Toolforge standards committee members because in the course of their duties they may have access to unpublished and/or unlicensed source code as well as log files and credentials associated with tools and bots that they did not author.
@bd808 will act as the WMF employee sponsor for those approved nominees who have not yet signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with the Wikimedia Foundation granting them membership in the WMF-NDA Phabricator project. @Lferreira will act as the required WMF manager in the approval process.
Following a period of public nomination and confidential review the following nominees have been approved to join the committee:
They have all been notified on their Wikitech talk pages and asked to start the NDA process if they have not already signed.