[steveklabnik]

> who are these guidelines for?

My understanding (you'll find some of my work quoted here, and I contributed a small amount before that this was public) is that this resource is for individuals who want to be involved in open source, either as contributors or maintainers, to learn about how it works. That is, a lot of open source development is sort of a shared, "oral" history; this resource spells out a lot of things that those of us who have been in the scene for a while just know, but you have to learn at some point.