# Crate ownership

Because Alire comes late in the history of the Ada and SPARK languages we will not apply a strict first come, first served policy on crates name. At least for the first months or years, we allow ourselves a form of moderation on the projects/crates published in the index with the following goals:

- Long term support: Owner and maintainers of a project are most likely in the best position to maintain the corresponding Alire crate.
- Respect the ownership of projects: Owner and maintainers of a project deserve to be credited for their work.
- Avoid user confusion on the name of crates: Crate names should be clear with regards to the project they contain. For instance, do not try to impersonate existing crates or projects.

To that extent we will potentially reject a create or transfer the ownership of a crate. 

We count on the goodwill of the contributors to help us conduct this moderation in a kind and courteous way. Do not submit a crate to the Alire index if you are not willing to comply with this policy.

As the Alire project matures, we expect to do less moderation and potentially remove this policy in favor of a first come, first served policy. 

# Release immutability

A release (identified by a unique semantic version) is protected against changes by its integrity hashes. If errors are identified post-publication, a release could be withdrawn, or superseded by a new one (using the appropriate major/minor/patch/build version changes), but not modified.
