Policies and guidelines

These policies and guidelines help us maintain consistency in the various types

of maintenance work. If you are writing code or documentation, following these policies

..admonition::AI Usage

Use AI tools as reference aides, not to author contributions in your stead. For

guidance, see our:ref:`AI policy<generative_ai>`.

These policies and guidelines help us maintain consistency in the various types of

maintenance work. If you are writing code or documentation, following these policies

helps maintainers more easily review your work. If you are helping triage, community

manage, or release manage, these guidelines describe how our current process works.