ZeroMQ's Collective Code Construction Contract [1] goes into a lot of my question areas in concrete detail. It puts fair burden on both contributors and maintai

ZeroMQ's Collective Code Construction Contract [1] goes into a lot of my question areas in concrete detail. It puts fair burden on both contributors and maintainers and clearly delineates the roles. Relevant to my post is the focus on identified and agreed problems and the requirements that contributors use the issue tracker and work to consensus on the validity of their observations and solution. [1] http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:22 http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:22