The repo is a 2-person team where both maintainers own every path, so the
CODEOWNERS machinery (generated CODEOWNERS, roles yml, render script, the two
drift/hand-edit CI jobs) gated nothing real while adding friction: every PR
showed "Review required" and own-PRs merged only via admin/bypass override.
Remove the whole chassis and drop the review gate:
- delete .github/CODEOWNERS, codeowners-roles.yml, render-codeowners.py,
the CODEOWNERS workflow, and docs/dev/codeowners.md
- branch-protection.json: drop the two CODEOWNERS required status checks,
set require_code_owner_reviews=false and required_approving_review_count=0
(CI checks are the gate; maintainers merge their own PRs once green)
- scrub CODEOWNERS references from AGENTS.md, docs indexes, branch-protection
and ci docs, GOVERNANCE.md, and CONTRIBUTING.md
The policy change is inert until an admin runs scripts/apply-branch-protection.sh.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Formalize the public contribution surface. Maintainers keep a separate internal
process and are exempt from the intake gates; everyone stays bound by review,
CODEOWNERS, and branch protection.
Model:
- Issues = problem reports only (bug form + config.yml redirects ideas to
Discussions and disables blank issues).
- Discussions = ideas + RFC incubation.
- RFCs = anyone (incl. external) authors docs/rfcs/NNNN-*.md; a maintainer
merging it is acceptance. Distinct from the maintainer-internal
docs/dev/rfc-00N-* track.
- PRs = link an `accepted` issue or accepted RFC, or use the trivial fast-lane
(typos/docs/deps). Enforced softly to start (template + review).
Adds GOVERNANCE.md, rewrites CONTRIBUTING.md, adds docs/rfcs/ (README +
template), .github issue/PR/discussion templates. Wires docs/rfcs/ into the
doc-link checker (excluded like releases; linked from docs/dev/index.md).
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
