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Welcome, and thank you for your interest in contributing to Vortex! We are delighted to receive all forms of community contributions (issues, pull requests, questions).

We ask that you read the guidelines below in order to
make the process as streamlined as possible.
We ask that you read the guidelines below in order to make the process as streamlined as possible.

## Governance

Vortex is an independent open-source project and not controlled by any single company. The Vortex Project is a sub-project of the Linux Foundation Projects. As such, the governance is subject to the terms of the [Technical Charter](https://vortex.dev/charter.pdf).

## Project Roles

* Contributor: anyone who contributes intellectual property to the common endeavor of the project under the project license.
* Committer: a subset of Contributors, who collectively determine the project's technical direction. Committers have permissions to review & merge code contributions.
* Maintainer: a subset of Committers, who are additionally responsible for appointing new Committers.
* Committer: a subset of Contributors, who collectively determine the project's technical direction. Committers have permissions to review & merge code contributions. Unless they are also Maintainers, Committers are non-voting members of the Technical Steering Committee (TSC).
* Maintainer: a subset of Committers, who are also *voting* members of the Technical Steering Committee (TSC). In practice, Maintainers' primary responsibility is to manage membership of the Committers/Maintainers group over time and ensure the long-term health of the project.

### Committers

At the time of writing, the following individuals serve as Committers (non-voting TSC members) on the project:

1. Adam Gutglick
2. Alexander Droste
3. Andy Pavlo
4. Connor Tsui
5. Daniel King
6. Dmitrii Blaginin
7. Joseph Isaacs
8. Marko Bakovic
9. Onur Satici
10. Xinyu Zeng

### Maintainers

At the time of writing, the following individuals serve as Committers & Maintainers (voting TSC members) on the project:

1. Andrew Duffy
2. Carlo Curino
3. Nicholas Gates
4. Robert Kruszewski
5. Wes McKinney
6. Will Manning (chair)

## Coding style

Our CI process enforces an extensive set of linter (e.g., `clippy`) rules, as well as language-specific formatters (e.g., `cargo fmt`). Beyond that,
we document additional style guidelines in [STYLE.md](STYLE.md).
Our CI process enforces an extensive set of linter (e.g., `clippy`) rules, as well as language-specific formatters (e.g., `cargo fmt`). Beyond that, we document additional style guidelines in [STYLE.md](STYLE.md).

## Reporting Issues

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