vouch

We have hosted the application vouch in order to run this application in our online workstations with Wine or directly.

Quick description about vouch:

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 community members before they can participate in selected parts of the project, and they can also �denounce� users to block them should they act in bad faith. The system stores trust decisions in a simple flat file format that integrates easily with version control and can be parsed using standard tools, making the trust layer lightweight and transparent.

Features:

• Explicit vouch/denounce contributor trust model
• Integrates with GitHub Actions for automated gating
• Simple flat file format without external dependencies
• Web of trust capability across projects
• Reduces low-quality or spam contributions
• Configurable rules for different parts of a repository

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