Community owned
The key words “MUST”, “MUST NOT”, “SHOULD”, etc. are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
Rationale
The nf-core community was founded to allow different groups to collaborate on pipelines. One of the strengths of this approach is that pipelines are not tied to a specific group or individual. This means that as people’s time commitments and funding change, maintenance of a pipeline can shift between groups and stay up to date.
By adding a pipeline to nf-core, you MUST agree to working in our collaborative ecosystem:
- You MUST be willing to work with other contributors
- Decisions about the pipeline will be made based on community consensus (with final say from core team and steering if needed, see governance)
- Other people MAY add features and make releases
The following are explicitly permitted:
- Publication of the pipeline by the primary developers
- Use and publicity of the pipeline and nf-core