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Waldir Pimenta 7 years ago
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@@ -15,20 +15,25 @@ with no central authority.
 
 - **All contributions are welcome**,
   [no matter how small](https://github.com/kentcdodds/all-contributors).
-  The tldr-pages project is a [do-ocracy](https://communitywiki.org/wiki/DoOcracy),
-  so don't hesitate to get involved — we're happy to welcome you into the community!
-  Please take a look at [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
+  The tldr-pages project is a
+  [do-ocracy](https://communitywiki.org/wiki/DoOcracy),
+  so don't hesitate to get involved
+  — we're happy to welcome you into the community!
+  Please take a look at [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md)
   to get started.
 
-- All members of the community are expected to **be cordial in all communications**.
-  Avoid making assumptions about the others' intentions, and make your own intentions clear.
+- All members of the community are expected to
+  **be cordial in all communications**.
+  Avoid making assumptions about the others' intentions,
+  and make your own intentions clear.
   When in doubt, provide additional context, or ask for clarification.
   Remember, it's very hard to convey meaning on a purely written medium,
   especially between people from different cultures, technical backgrounds,
   English proficiency levels, etc.
 
 - **All communications are public**.
-  There are no permanent private channels where maintainers discuss "internal" matters.
+  There are no permanent private channels
+  where maintainers discuss "internal" matters.
   Occasional private chat or email messages may be exchanged,
   e.g. when setting up services that require passwords,
   but otherwise all communications that impact the project
@@ -39,7 +44,8 @@ with no central authority.
 - **All decisions are made by community consensus.**
   This does not mean there has to be unanimity,
   nor that decisions result from vote counts.
-  What it means is that every interested member of the community can voice their thoughts,
+  What it means is that
+  every interested member of the community can voice their thoughts,
   and different positions are ideally resolved via
   [informed consent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocracy#Consent_vs._consensus)
   of the involved people, who accept the collective decision
@@ -48,20 +54,23 @@ with no central authority.
 
 ## II. Role transitions
 
-The main goal of these principles is to support a continuous replenishing of the management team
+The main goal of these principles
+is to support a continuous replenishing of the management team
 via a **smooth transition flow between community roles** —
 from newcomer, to occasional contributor, to regular contributor, to maintainer.
 This way the project can adapt in a flexible way
 to the the natural variations in availability and interest of its contributors,
-ensuring long-term resilience,
-and avoiding [single points of failure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor).
+ensuring long-term resilience, and avoiding
+[single points of failure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor).
 
 To this end, rather than assigning roles and tasks to people,
 these guidelines instead aim to **recognize the work that people already do**.
-Everyone is therefore encouraged to get involved and contribute to the project in whatever way they prefer,
+Everyone is therefore encouraged to get involved
+and contribute to the project in whatever way they prefer,
 and we will strive to **get barriers out of the way** of these contributions.
 
-To ensure that these processes are transparent, predictable, and free from subective judgment,
+To ensure that these processes are
+transparent, predictable, and free from subective judgment,
 the metrics used are simple, objective, and publicly available.
 
 - Regular contributors shall be recognized as collaborators in the organization.
@@ -69,26 +78,37 @@ the metrics used are simple, objective, and publicly available.
     - Specifically: once a contributor has had **5 pull requests merged**,
       they should be invited to become a
       [**member of the tldr-pages organization**](https://github.com/orgs/tldr-pages/people).
-      This means they will be able to push commits to all of the organization's repositories,
+      This means they will be able to
+      push commits to all of the organization's repositories,
       merge PRs, label and close issues, among other things.
-      Note: All members of the tldr-pages organization must make their membership public.
-
-- Members of the organization who demonstrate interest in performing maintainership tasks,
-  by reviewing and/or merging PRs, responding to and labeling issues, and generally doing project maintenance work,
-  shall be made part of the maintenance team, and their name added to the list of current maintainers
+      Note: All members of the tldr-pages organization
+      must make their membership public.
+
+- Members of the organization
+  who demonstrate interest in performing maintainership tasks,
+  by reviewing and/or merging PRs, responding to and labeling issues,
+  and generally doing project maintenance work,
+  shall be made part of the maintenance team,
+  and their name added to the list of current maintainers
   in the [MAINTAINERS.md](MAINTAINERS.md) file.
 
-    - Specifically: once a contributor has been an organization member for at least 3 months,
+    - Specifically: once a contributor has been an organization member
+      for at least 3 months,
       and has **reviewed or merged 10 pull requests** by other contributors,
-      they should be invited to become an **owner of the tldr-pages organization**.
+      they should be invited to become
+      an **owner of the tldr-pages organization**.
       This means they will be able to add people to the organization,
       manage all the organization's repositories, configure integrations, etc.
 
-- If a collaborator or maintainer stops being active in the project for more than 6 months,
-  their membership status will be equally deactivated,
-  and their name added to the list of former maintainers in the MAINTAINERS.md file.
-  Again, this is and merely a reflection of their actual involvement with the project,
-  not a demotion or punishment. In fact, if they return to active participation in the project,
+- If a collaborator or maintainer stops being active in the project
+  for more than 6 months,
+  their membership status will be equally deactivated
+  and their name added to the list of former maintainers
+  in the MAINTAINERS.md file.
+  Again, this is and merely a reflection
+  of their actual involvement with the project,
+  not a demotion or punishment.
+  In fact, if they return to active participation in the project,
   they should be added back to the organization, to reflect that fact.
 
     - This inactivity threshold additionally ensures