Sphinx

# Organization of the Sphinx project

The guide explains how the Sphinx project is organized.

## Core developers

The core developers of Sphinx have write access to the main repository. They can commit changes, accept/reject pull requests, and manage items on the issue tracker.

### Guidelines

The following are some general guidelines for core developers:

- Questionable or extensive changes should be submitted as a pull request instead of being committed directly to the main repository. The pull request should be reviewed by another core developer before it is merged.

- Trivial changes can be committed directly but be sure to keep the repository in a good working state and that all tests pass before pushing your changes.

- When committing code written by someone else, please attribute the original author in the commit message and any relevant `CHANGES.rst` entry.

### Membership

Core membership is predicated on continued active contribution to the project. In general, prospective cores should demonstrate:

- a good understanding of one of more components of Sphinx

- a history of helpful, constructive contributions

- a willingness to invest time improving Sphinx

Refer to Contributing to Sphinx for more information on how you can get started.

## Other contributors

You do not need to be a core developer or have write access to be involved in the development of Sphinx. You can submit patches or create pull requests from forked repositories and have a core developer add the changes for you.

Similarly, contributions are not limited to code patches. We also welcome help triaging bugs, input on design decisions, reviews of existing patches and documentation improvements. More information can be found in Contributing to Sphinx.

A list of people that have contributed to Sphinx can be found in Sphinx authors.