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# Community Guidelines
### Read Before Contributing
IMPORTANT: Before you contribute, look through the mailing list archives, bug lists, and documentation first, to see if your question has already been answered. You will get a better response from people if you have already done your due diligence to find obvious or partial answers.
* Be nice: Be courteous and polite to fellow members of the list.
* Respect other people: No regional, racial, gender or other abuse will be tolerated.
* Keep it clean: Keep the language clean (no swearing)
* Be helpful: Be patient with new people and be willing to jump in to answer questions.
* Stay calm: The written word is always subject to interpretation, so give people the benefit of the doubt, and try not to let emotions get out of control.
* Keep it legal: Make sure that you have the legal right to post your content and are not violating copyright or other laws.
#### Code of Conduct
In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we pledge to make participation in our project and our community a harassment-free experience for everyone.  As such, we’ve included a  in our .
Keep it short
Remember that thousands of copies of your message will exist in mailboxes:
* Keep your messages as short as possible.
* Avoid including log output (select only the most relevant lines, or place the log on a website or in a  instead)
* Don’t excessively quote previous messages in the thread (trim the quoted text down to the most recent/relevant messages only).
Use proper posting style
* No HTML or Rich Text: Set your mailer to send only plain text messages to avoid getting caught in our spam filters.
* Do not top post: Top posting is replying to a message on “top” of the quoted text of the previous correspondence. This is unwanted in mailing lists because it increases the size of the daily digests and is confusing and incoherent. By default, most email clients top post. Please, remove the irrelevant part of the previous communication (in case of more than a single correspondence) and use bottom, interleaved posting
* Using interleaved posting: Bottom, interleaved posting is replying to the relevant parts of the previous correspondence just below the block(s) of sentences. For a comment to another block of sentences of the same quoted text, you should move below that relevant block again. Do not reply below the whole of the quoted text. Remove any irrelevant text.
* Use links: Please provide summaries and URLs to articles wherever possible. Avoid cutting and pasting whole articles especially considering all may not be interested.
* Don’t include attached files: Upload your file to  or another website and post a link to the file from your email message.
Do not hijack threads
Post new questions or new topics as new threads (new email message). Please do not reply to a random thread with a new question or start an unrelated topic of conversation in an existing thread. This creates confusion and makes it much less likely that you will get a response.
Do not cross post
Avoid posting to multiple lists simultaneously. Pick a mailing list that is most suitable for your post and just use that. CC’ing multiple lists should be avoided.
Subscribers only
Only subscribers can post to our mailing lists. If you would like to contribute to our mailing lists, we think it is only fair that you be a subscriber. Please note that if you want to participate only occasionally, you can subscribe to a list and set your email options to digest or no mail and read the web archives when you want to catch up.
Additional Resources
: Great guideline summary and examples of posting styles.
We like communications to run smoothly. To that end, here are some guidelines for participating in our bug tracking system.
* Be patient with others: Sometimes people post imperfect bug reports. In case of missing information, kindly tell reporters how to provide it, and/or suggest what they can do to improve the bug report.
* Stay on topic: Don’t start endless debates on topics not directly related to the scope of a specific bug report.
* Use proper quoting practices: Avoid quoting complete previous comments by stripping unneeded lines, and avoid answering above the quoted text.
* Don’t abuse your privileges: Submitters have permission to edit their bugs. If you abuse this privilege – for example, by reopening a bug that the maintainers have closed – your privileges will be revoked.
What to do if you find a bug
* Search first: Try to avoid filing duplicates by searching to see whether your issue has already been filed.
* Ask: You can ask on our mailing lists to see if anyone has seen this issue before to gather more details or see if someone has a workaround.
* Submit a bug report: Give us as many details as possible about what happened and how your issue can be reproduced.
* Track our progress: Get feedback from the development community and track resolution status.
* Provide a fix: If you know of a fix and/or workaround, please let us know.
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# Security
### Security Communications
Security information about each release is included in the release notes.   You can subscribe to the  to get notification when a new release comes out.
A summary of the known security vulnerabilities can be  found at: <
Vulnerability notifications pre-release or during embargo periods are available to Product Creators that have registered for these notices .
### Report a Vulnerability
We’re extremely grateful for security researchers and users that report vulnerabilities to the Zephyr Project.  All reports are thoroughly investigated by a set of the security committee volunteers who form the Zephyr Project Security Incident Report Team (Zephyr PSIRT) and may assigned a CVE if appropriate.    The Zephyr project is a listed .
To make a report, please submit your vulnerability to vulnerabilities@www.zephyrproject.org
More details of how vulnerabilities are handled can be found in our documentation.
### When Should I Report a Vulnerability?
* You think you discovered a potential security vulnerability in Zephyr
* You are unsure how a vulnerability affects Zephyr
* You think you discovered a vulnerability in another project that Zephyr depends on
  + For projects with their own vulnerability reporting and disclosure process, please report it directly there.
### When Should I NOT Report a Vulnerability?
* You need help tuning Zephyr components for security  →  see #security in 
* You need help 
* Your  is not security related
### Security Vulnerability Response
Each report is acknowledged and analyzed by Zephyr Project Security Incident Response Team members within 7 working days. This will set off the .
Any vulnerability information shared with Product Security Committee stays within Zephyr project and will not be disseminated to other projects unless it is necessary to get the issue fixed.
As the security issue moves from triage, to identified fix, to release planning we will keep the reporter updated.
### Public Disclosure Timing
### Embargo Policy
The information members receive during embargo periods may be received on vulnerability-alerts@lists.www.zephyrproject.org. Any information regarding embargoed vulnerabilities must not be made public, shared, nor even hinted at anywhere beyond the need-to-know within your specific team except with the list’s explicit approval. This holds true until the public disclosure date/time that was agreed upon by the list. Members of the list and others may not use the information for anything other than getting the issue fixed for your respective product’s users.
Before any embargoed information from the list is shared with respective members of your team required to fix said issue, they must agree to the same terms and only find out information on a need-to-know basis.
In the unfortunate event a member shares the information beyond what is allowed by this policy, that member ***must*** urgently inform thevulnerabilities@www.zephyrproject.org mailing list of exactly what information leaked and to whom. A retrospective will take place after the leak so we can assess how to not make the same mistake in the future.
If the member continues to leak information and break this policy, the member will be removed from the list.
### Product Creator Notifications
Product creators who are not already members of the Zephyr project may be eligible to participate in the vulnerability-alerts@lists.www.zephyrproject.org mail list and receive advanced notification of the vulnerabilities and mitigations before public disclosure by applying to participate. For information on the notification process, refer to the Vulnerability Reporting and Alerts section of the Zephyr Project documentation.
Criteria for participation includes:
1. Have a contact who will respond to emails within a week and understands how Zephyr is being used in the product.
2. Have a publicly listed product based on some release of Zephyr.
3. Have an actively monitored security email alias.
4. Accept the Zephyr Embargo Policy that is outlined above.
Removal: If a member stops adhering to these criteria after joining the list then the member will be unsubscribed.
If you believe your company meets the criteria to be eligible to receive vulnerability alerts  please fill out the form at: 
# Product Creators Vulnerability Alert Registry
If you believe your organization meets the criteria to be eligible to receive vulnerability alerts please fill out the form below.
### Criteria for Participation
* Have a contact who will respond to emails within a week and understands how Zephyr is being used in the product.
* Have a publicly listed product based on some release of Zephyr.
* Have an actively monitored security email alias.
* Accept the Zephyr Embargo Policy that is outlined below.
More information on Zephyr’s Security and Disclosure practices can be found at .