Project governance is defined in

Governance

For the general process of submitting changes to Ceph, read the below

Submitting Patches

You should not hit merge on a pull request without being familiar with the

Merge Requirements

For documentation changes the following guide will help you get started

Documenting Ceph

Performance enhancements must come with test data and detailed explanations.

Code cleanup is appreciated, as are contributions that fix bugs or implement features. Except on rare occasions, code cleanup that only relates to coding style or modifies whitespace is discouraged, primarily because it can cause problems when rebasing and backporting.