Repo rules

Here’s a quick summary of special policies and guidelines when working in this repository:

• AI: disclosure of provider/model/tokens, no OpenAI usage, no AI-generated first PRs (see AI.md)
• PRs: (see pull_request_template.md)
• committers can become a developer (with collaborator access) on invite/request, after multiple successful contributions.
• core developers are developers with recent history of ongoing dev/maintenance, nominated by maintainers.
• maintainers, currently SM, manage the repo and what goes into it, finances, and the project generally.
• regressions are tracked, but no longer earn bounties (see REGRESSIONS.md)
• PR review work by core developers is paid (50 USD/hr for now, invoiced to our open collective).
• non-core-dev reviewers are also paid, if a core developer nominates them on a PR.
• Committers are responsible for their commits. Reviewers are responsible for their reviews. Maintainers are responsible for their merges and management. We all are responsible for our community and for the outcomes of our work.

Basic things like civility, respect, kindness are assumed, and we need not codify them here.