Individuals making significant and valuable contributions are given commit-access to a project to contribute as they see fit. A project is more like an open wiki than a standard guarded open source project.
There are a few basic ground-rules for contributors:
- No
--forcepushes or modifying the Git history in any way. - Non-master branches ought to be used for ongoing work.
- External API changes and significant modifications ought to be subject to an internal pull-request to solicit feedback from other contributors.
- Internal pull-requests to solicit feedback are encouraged for any other non-trivial contribution but left to the discretion of the contributor.
- Contributors should attempt to adhere to the prevailing code-style.
Declaring formal releases remains the prerogative of the project maintainer(s).
This is an experiment and feedback is welcome! This document may also be subject to pull-requests or changes by contributors where you believe you have something valuable to add or change.
Taken with much kudos from https://github.com/Level/community/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#level-projects-are-open-open-source-projects