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## [Unreleased]

### Changed: the bus factor is two (no code change)

- `GOVERNANCE.md`: `znmead` knows the code (the maintainer's word, 2026-09-23) and reviews pull
requests from that date, so the bus factor is two.

## [0.2.0] - 2026-09-23

A security fix and an addition, placed at the minor (0.x): the private key no longer reaches an
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| **Contributor** | anyone | proposes changes by pull request under `CONTRIBUTING.md`: signed off, tested, green; reports bugs and enhancements as issues; reports vulnerabilities privately |

There is no steering group and no vote. A decision is the maintainer's and is recorded in the
tree (a CHANGELOG entry, a page, a test) or it was not made. Access is held twice; knowledge
is held once, so the bus factor is one, stated rather than hidden.
tree (a CHANGELOG entry, a page, a test) or it was not made. The knowledge is held twice:
`znmead` knows the code (the maintainer's word, 2026-09-23) and reviews pull requests from that
date, so the bus factor is two, and his reviews are the public record of it.

## How a change lands

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