Homarus starts as a maintainer-led open source project with public design discussion.
- Small documentation fixes may be reviewed and merged directly.
- Architecture changes should start as a GitHub Discussion or design issue.
- Security-sensitive changes require explicit review from maintainers familiar with the Memory Shield model.
- Benchmark claims should include reproducible methodology before being treated as project facts.
- Keep the public roadmap realistic and clearly labeled.
- Preserve the distinction between implemented behavior, design targets, and research hypotheses.
- Review licensing impact before accepting third-party code or assets.
- Encourage bilingual documentation quality without forcing literal translations.
Contributors may become regular reviewers by consistently improving technical quality, references, benchmark reproducibility, or security analysis. Formal maintainer expansion will be documented in this file when it happens.