This repository is maintained through open, respectful, and evidence-based collaboration.
All contributors, maintainers, and reviewers are expected to uphold professional conduct in Discussions, Issues, PRs, and meetings.
Contributors are expected to:
- communicate respectfully and constructively,
- focus on technical merit and interoperability impact,
- provide reproducible evidence for claims,
- accept review outcomes and process timelines,
- collaborate in good faith across working groups.
The following behaviors are not acceptable:
- personal attacks, harassment, intimidation, or abusive language,
- repeated bad-faith argumentation after decisions are documented,
- deliberately bypassing governance or branch policy,
- pressuring maintainers or working groups to force a merge,
- misrepresenting consensus, approvals, or review status.
Contributors must not pressure the working group to force a merge.
- Merge decisions are made through the documented governance process.
- A contribution is not entitled to merge solely because implementation work was completed.
- Working groups may request clarifications or additional validation at any stage.
If conduct concerns arise, report them through repository maintainers or the relevant working group channel.
Maintainers may take actions including warning, moderation, temporary participation limits, or closure of non-compliant threads.
This Code of Conduct applies to all participation spaces related to this repository, including asynchronous and meeting-based collaboration.