# Contributing to aethel-core
## Current posture: not taking external PRs yet
This project is implemented and maintained by a single named maintainer (Ed Johnson), not a
team with a review pipeline built for external contributions. That means:
- **Issues are welcome** — bug reports, questions, and feature requests. They're read and
triaged on a best-effort basis.
- **External pull requests are not being merged right now.** Not because contributions aren't
wanted long-term, but because there's no review capacity to do them justice yet. Opening one
won't get an insulting silence, but expect it to sit until capacity exists, or to be closed
with a note rather than merged.
- If you want to contribute code, **open an issue first** to discuss the change before writing
it. That avoids spending your time on something that can't be reviewed or merged in a
reasonable window.
This posture is stated here because pretending otherwise wastes contributors' time. It will be
revised, and this file updated, if and when that capacity changes.
## Development
```bash
cargo build
cargo test
```
See [`README.md`](./README.md) for the full build matrix (WASM target, `puf` feature, etc.)
and what's covered by the test suite.