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22 changes: 22 additions & 0 deletions COMMUNITY_CONTRIBUTIONS.md
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> If there's no Jira or no reference to it in your pull request
> there might be delays in processing it

#### Contribution Header Requirements ####
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Under this vibe-agnostic header, we can also recommend including Reviewed-by: MariaDB Maintainer during the review–feedback phase.

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#### Contribution Header Requirements ####
#### Contribution Trailer Requirements ####


Git supports adding "trailers" to a commit message. Contributors
submitting pull requests that contain co-authored commits are
**strongly encouraged** to add a specific "Co-Authored-By:"
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Co-author tagging should be required if

  • The bot can pass Turing tests.
  • The human rewrote little to no output
    (entirely vibecoded or have only reviewed).

git commit message trailer for contributions that were co-authored.
This is especially important for contributions that were co-authored by
AI-assisted code generators, for example
```
commit some-hash
Author: Somebody <somebody@example.com>
Date: Mon Jun 30 16:41:18 2025 -0600

MDEV-00000: Something

Explain what it is.

Co-authored-by: Some Tool
```
You can also use the --trailer option to git commit to produce these.


## States of a Community Contribution ##

```mermaid
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