.github

The vaelii organization's special .github repository. It is not a code project — it holds two things:

1. The org profile — profile/README.md renders on the organization's GitHub landing page.
2. Default community-health files — GitHub uses these as the fallback for every repo in the org that doesn't ship its own copy:
   • CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
   • SECURITY.md
   • SUPPORT.md
   • CONTRIBUTING.md
   • GOVERNANCE.md
   • FUNDING.yml
   • .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/ and PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md

Issue templates are the one type GitHub pins to a folder: they must be in .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE. Everything else may be at the root.

A repository that ships its own version of any of these overrides the default — so per-repo specifics (e.g. a project's own security scope or contribution terms) still win.

What does not live here

LICENSE, a project README, DCO, CLA files (legal/) and workflows are not inherited by GitHub — they must live in each repository. Vaelii's licenses vary by project (SSPL-1.0 for the engine, Apache-2.0 for the reader plugin, and other terms for what is not published yet), so a single org-wide license would be wrong.

Editing

Change a file here and every repo without its own copy picks it up automatically — there is nothing to sync, and no staging either, so review before pushing.