The Silk.NET Community GitHub is a home for useful community-maintained extensions for the Silk.NET library recognised by the official Silk.NET maintenance team.

We created this organisation to give extra recognition to projects the Silk.NET team deem useful and trustworthy, and to serve as a single location for community projects endorsed by the Silk.NET team.

Benefits for the user:

• A single location for add-ons to Silk.NET - no need to go hunting!
• Readily-available access to mature projects that can be trusted and are endorsed by the Silk.NET team

Benefits to the community project maintainers:

• More exposure to more users
• Greater user buy-in given the "Trusted by the Silk.NET Team" image

Benefits for the Silk.NET maintainers:

• No need to envelop these projects into the main library, as a result:
  • Less work to maintain the Silk.NET library
  • Less risk of scope creep

Simply open an issue using the "Project Submission" template and the Silk.NET team will review your project as soon as possible!

• You keep all maintenance responsibility
• You keep admin permissions on the GitHub Repository.
• You keep full copyright of the project, and do not need to grant anyone any additional rights (such as trademark or patent licenses), though the permissive license requirement
• You can withdraw from the Silk.NET Community at any time (contact us on Discord)
• You still have full control over library design, code, and maintenance decisions & policies, except where otherwise noted in the "Onboarding Requirements"
• You may request a channel in the Silk.NET Discord Server for development discussion

1. You use Silk.NET predominantly for any low-level interoperation with libraries that Silk.NET provide bindings for, and help promote the Silk.NET as the one bindings library you need for low-level graphics.
2. You are stable enough to be recommended to our community, and the project is in a good enough state that our userbase can start integrating your work into theirs.
   • Betas and pre-releases are okay, so long as the primary advertised functionality works (i.e. it "does what it says on the tin")
3. You solve a problem which the Silk.NET maintainers team recognises as a problem, and they believe that your project is useful when building libraries and applications that use Silk.NET.
4. Your leadership skills and/or familiarity with the Silk.NET toolset is recognised by the Silk.NET maintainers (e.g. you've proven to be a friendly face in Discord, you're a known contributor on GitHub, and/or are a known Silk.NET evangelist)
5. You use a permissive copyright license that is suitable for consuming the project as intended without adverse restriction
   • MIT or MIT-compatible licenses (e.g. Apache 2.0, BSD-3, etc) are recommended

• You will need to adopt the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct, and ensure your community doesn't break the rules. A copy of this is provided in the CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md file.
• You will need to use Discord and join the Silk.NET Discord Server so that we can maintain contact with you, ideally providing an alternative contact method (such as an email address) in case we can't.

• You will need to maintain conformance with the "Prerequisites"
• You, as a project team, will need to conform with the Code of Conduct
• You will need to remain contactable via Discord in the first instance, and via the alternative method provided if all else fails.

Non-conformance, in the worst case, may result in us requesting that the project be transferred out of the organisation - if we are unable to establish contact with a maintainer to do this within 30 days after at least 3 attempts, the project will be archived. You, as the project maintainer, will be able to contact us at any time to get the project unarchived and transferred at any time.

For the purposes of the Silk.NET team's relationship with the community project, a "project maintainer" is anyone with admin rights on the GitHub repository - this is defined as such so that you can add and remove maintainers to the project as you please without contacting us but please ensure all maintainers are in the Discord server.