Development documentation

This is the in-progress lota-next branch. For the released version, see the stable documentation.

Contributor

Development happens on the lota-next integration branch. Open pull requests there, not against main.

• Contribution rules

• Developer and testing policy

• Branch model and release flow

• Code of Conduct

Local tooling:

• scripts/check-patch -- local quality gate.

• scripts/format-patch -- commit-message normaliser.