Developer Guidelines

• Developers should not use their powers in-game outside of testing areas like the Thunderdome unless specifically required or asked to. You should always defer to a maintainer or administrator if one is present. If no maintainers or administrators are present and there is a game-breaking bug or a similar problem, you are allowed to fix it, though you should still be careful. Your actions will be your own responsibility.
• Developers are expected to regularly review pull requests. Our Github does not function without regular reviews. You are also expected to be somewhat thorough with reviewing pull requests - errors are fine, but you should still put effort into it.
• You are not expected to review pull requests the contents of which you do not understand or cannot review. A spriter who can only sprite, for instance, is not expected to review a complex backend pull request.

Developers are expected to be active if submitting regular balance-related pull requests. Doing only back-end work does not require a high activity level, but repeatedly submitting balance pull requests while not being up-to-date with the game and its culture will lead to a review of your position.

• The Feedback Required tag may be applied by any developer at their discretion, but it should not be used for trivial changes. It should be used when a pull request is controversial enough to justify a forum thread.
• The Maintainer Discussion tag may be applied by any developer at their discretion, but it should only be used for changes that would have a large effect on the server, its gameplay or its setting.