You cannot select more than 25 topics
Topics must start with a letter or number, can include dashes ('-') and can be up to 35 characters long.
42 lines
1.7 KiB
ReStructuredText
42 lines
1.7 KiB
ReStructuredText
.. title:: Proposal Etiquette
|
|
|
|
Proposal Etiquette
|
|
------------------
|
|
|
|
Proposals **must** act to the greater benefit of the entire Matrix ecosystem,
|
|
rather than benefiting or privileging any single player or subset of players -
|
|
and must not contain any patent encumbered IP. Members of the Core Team pledge to act as
|
|
a neutral custodian for Matrix on behalf of the whole ecosystem.
|
|
|
|
For clarity: the Matrix ecosystem is anyone who uses the Matrix protocol. That
|
|
includes client users, server admins, client developers, bot developers,
|
|
bridge and AS developers, users and admins who are indirectly using Matrix via
|
|
3rd party networks which happen to be bridged, server developers, room
|
|
moderators and admins, companies/projects building products or services on
|
|
Matrix, spec contributors, translators, and those who created it in
|
|
the first place.
|
|
|
|
"Greater benefit" could include maximising:
|
|
|
|
* the number of end-users reachable on the open Matrix network
|
|
* the number of regular users on the Matrix network (e.g. 30-day retained
|
|
federated users)
|
|
* the number of online servers in the open federation
|
|
* the number of developers building on Matrix
|
|
* the number of independent implementations which use Matrix
|
|
* the quality and utility of the Matrix spec
|
|
|
|
In addition, proposal authors are expected to uphold the following values in
|
|
their proposed changes to the Matrix protocol:
|
|
|
|
* Supporting the whole long-term ecosystem rather than individual stakeholder gain
|
|
* Openness rather than proprietariness
|
|
* Collaboration rather than competition
|
|
* Accessibility rather than elitism
|
|
* Transparency rather than stealth
|
|
* Empathy rather than contrariness
|
|
* Pragmatism rather than perfection
|
|
* Proof rather than conjecture
|
|
|
|
Return to the `proposals page <proposals.html>`_.
|