Individuals making significant and valuable contributions are given commit-access to the project to contribute as they see fit. This project is more like an open wiki than a standard guarded open source project.

There are a few basic ground-rules for contributors:

1. No --force pushes or modifying the Git history in any way.
2. Non-master branches ought to be used for ongoing work.
3. External API changes and significant modifications ought to be subject to an internal pull-request to solicit feedback from other contributors.
4. Internal pull-requests to solicit feedback are encouraged for any other non-trivial contribution but left to the discretion of the contributor.
5. Contributors should attempt to adhere to the prevailing code-style.

Declaring formal releases remains the prerogative of the project maintainer.

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.

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