# Community Policy

Status: issue-first community surface

Boulder currently uses GitHub as the source of truth for community work.

## Where to Ask

- Bug reports: open a GitHub issue with the bug report form.
- Feature ideas: open a GitHub issue with the feature request form.
- Documentation improvements: open a GitHub issue with the documentation form.
- AI-assisted contributions: open a GitHub issue or PR and disclose the AI assistance.

There is no separate Discord, Slack, or forum as an official decision surface yet.

## Decision Rule

GitHub issues and pull requests are the decision record.

Informal discussion is allowed, but a change is not accepted until the decision, scope, tests, and evidence are recorded in GitHub.

## Maintainer Response

Maintainers should triage new issues into one of these states:

- `good first issue`
- `help wanted`
- `needs decision`
- `blocked`
- `wontfix`

Every accepted issue should have:

- a clear problem statement
- acceptance criteria
- expected verification command
- docs impact, if any

## Future Community Channels

If Boulder gets enough external usage, a discussion channel can be added. Until then, GitHub remains the only official support and decision channel.