Maintainer-Ready Contribution

Prepare work for the receiving community. Optimize for correctness, fit, clarity, reviewability, and follow-through, not superficial polish or volume.

Workflow

1. Confirm the upstream decision

Obtain or reconstruct:

• problem and affected users;
• issue, ownership, and disposition classifications;
• receiving project and component;
• why this project is the responsible home;
• local constraints and any temporary workaround.

Return to upstream-first if ownership is unresolved.