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From: AJ ONeal <aj@therootcompany.com>
Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 17:47:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Update page 'Move to Approve'

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-Welcome to the Wiki.
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+# Maintainer Guidelines
+The purpose of this document is to manage expectations and make contributing pleasurable.
+
+We like contributors but, looking at the numbers, most contributors to a project only ever make one commit.
+They are often one-offs. It is the 1% who move the bulk of the code.
+
+As such, we want to keep the barrier to entry for contributors as low as possible.
+We don't see it as reasonable for newcomers to the community to have to become intimately
+familiar with our way of doing things in order to make a meaningful contribution.
+
+As such, we believe the responsibility falls to the maintainers to know and effectively communicate
+the rules of the road and, most importantly: to move to approve, quickly:
+
+## 1. Move to Approve
+
+We acknowledge that the reason someone creates a PR is likely:
+
+1. They're trying to solve their own problem
+2. They believe that their solution will help others
+
+Therefore our responsibility is to:
+
+1. Determine if there's any reason the PR **shouldn't** go through
+    * (i.e. it's out of line with the project goals)
+2. Help the contributor get 80% of the way there
+    * Determine criteria that need to be met to move forward
+3. Make the last few changes, if needed (rename a thing, fix a space)
+
+ 
+
+
+## 2. Opinions are the Burden of the Bearer
+
+## 3. Remain Politically Neutral
+
+First off, we recognize that everyone has moral (and amoral) values that they feel strongly about and want to enforce among other people. This is a natural human tendency. That doesn't make mud-slinging okay, but it does make it **forgivable**.
+
+
+#### Erring on the side of Hypocrisy
+
+To both hold a moral view, which morality dictates _should_ be enforced, _and_ to accept others who oppose that view is paroxical - therefore we err on the side of **hypocrisy**:
+
+It is better to **accept** than to oppose.
+
+Being **obnoxious** makes it difficult for others to accept you.
+
+Just as arsenic and selenium (which are deadly in high doses) are
+[nutrients](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2246629/) in microdoses,
+we view accepting, correcting, and forgiving a little toxicity to be more in line
+with our values of tolerance than blocking.
+
+#### Safe to be Wrong
+
+We value **individuality** (it comes with the name).
+
+This is a **safe** space to have an opinion and to express it, even if it possibly offends someone,
+as long as you're also open to feedback and you **don't become obnoxious**.
+
+That said, please don't preach political views or mud-sling. Incidental conversation is fine. We'll block obnoxious people.
+
+#### Our Politics
+
+We are Root. All on it's own that expression, "We are Root", carries a lot of political bias - we care about individual ownership, control, identity, minimalism, etc. Creating a community that has those interests and values in common has a polarizing affect. Therefore we can't be perfectly nuetral. In the absence of perfect nuetrality, we strive for an "it is what it is" mentality.
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