Vouch
A community trust management system based on explicit vouches
Vouch is an open-source community trust management system that introduces an explicit vouching model to govern who is allowed to contribute to a project’s critical interactions, such as opening issues or submitting pull requests. Traditional open source has relied on implicit trust earned through effort, but the advent of AI-generated low-quality contributions has made maintainers seek more intentional vetting processes. With Vouch, existing trusted contributors explicitly “vouch” for new...