The Guvnor project is home to the jboss SOA repository utilities and tools. The Overlord project for "Governance" requires a repository to store artifacts - this is Guvnor !. The repository is a versioned store for all "SOA" related artifacts (files) that are needed by runtime and design time systems. For instance, storing configuration files, editing them, and then managing their lifecycle through various interfaces (web, Eclipse) is what Guvnor is all about. A user may locate some reusable XSD via the web, sync it into their eclipse workspace, and then have it shared via an atompub "feed" to runtime systems - this is all guvnor.