AReaL Community
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This repository is the central place for non-code resources that govern and support the AReaL ecosystem. If you are looking for source code, documentation, or examples of AReaL itself, please visit the main repository at areal-project/AReaL.
What lives here
| Document | Purpose |
|---|---|
| GOVERNANCE.md | Governing principles, decision-making, and how the project is run. |
| COMMUNITY_LADDER.md | Contributor roles (Contributor, Member, Approver, Maintainer). |
| COMMUNITY_MEMBERSHIP.md | Elections, promotions, departures, and membership processes. |
| roles/ | The people who currently hold each community role. |
| CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md | Community standards based on Contributor Covenant 3.0. |
| CONTRIBUTING.md | How to contribute to the community (events, docs, translations, etc.). |
| SECURITY.md | How to responsibly disclose security vulnerabilities. |
| REPOSITORIES.md | Index of repositories that make up the AReaL ecosystem. |
| ROADMAP.md | Pointer to the official AReaL project roadmap. |
| LICENSE | Apache License 2.0, under which AReaL is released. |
Get involved
There are many ways to participate, regardless of your background:
- Ask or answer questions in GitHub Discussions.
- Report issues or propose features in the main issue tracker.
- Improve documentation, translations, or examples in the main repository.
- Join community meetings. AReaL holds regular community calls; meeting notes and recordings are linked from the main project's community materials.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for more details.
Community & communication
AReaL's collaboration happens in the open. The main ways to reach the community are:
- GitHub Issues -- bug reports, feature requests, and proposals in the main issue tracker.
- GitHub Discussions -- questions, ideas, and open-ended discussion in AReaL Discussions.
- Community meetings -- regular community calls. Agendas, slides, and recordings are indexed in meeting/README.md.
- Security reports -- private disclosure channels described in SECURITY.md.
Governance & roles
The project is governed as described in GOVERNANCE.md. AReaL is a community-driven project with a four-rung contributor ladder -- Contributor, Member, Approver, and Maintainer -- described in COMMUNITY_LADDER.md. The decision-making process, election and promotion procedures, and the people who hold each role are documented in COMMUNITY_MEMBERSHIP.md and under roles/.
Feedback
We welcome your feedback. Share product ideas in
Discussions, raise governance or
community-process feedback in an issue labeled governance in this repository or at a
community meeting. See GOVERNANCE.md for details.
License
All content in this repository is licensed under the Apache License 2.0, the same license used by the main AReaL project.