Editorial team and governance

SteamOS.Club is an independent community documentation project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Valve Corporation, a hardware vendor, a Linux distribution, or a commercial directory listed on the site.

Ownership model

Published pages name a maintenance role rather than implying an unverified personal author. The checked-in registry assigns responsibility for editorial review, Linux platform guidance, hardware evidence, compatibility, performance, open-source projects, releases, and site reliability.

RoleResponsibility
Editorial
Bilingual structure, terminology, citations, metadata, and publication state
Linux platform
Kernel, graphics, session, recovery, and system-service guidance
Hardware lab
Exact model scope, firmware, components, and physical-test evidence
Compatibility lab
Game runtime, Proton, anti-cheat, and reproducibility boundaries
Release engineering
Locked dependencies, build evidence, deployment, and rollback
Site reliability
Availability, crawlability, stale content, and incident response

Attribution boundary. A role is accountable for review, but it is not a fabricated human identity. Named bylines can be added only with contributor consent and a verifiable contribution record.

Publication and correction flow

Reader correction or test report

Privacy and scope triage

Primary source or reproducible evidence

Technical and language review

Schema, links, build, browser, and release gates

Bilingual publication

Freshness and regression monitoring

Use the maintenance and crawler policy for review intervals and evidence levels. Game reports use the stricter moderated reporting policy. A vendor specification may establish a component field, but it cannot substitute for a physical Linux compatibility test.

  • Commercial, reciprocal, or directory-partner links are isolated on the friend-links page and qualified in markup.
  • Inclusion in a synchronized upstream dataset is not an editorial recommendation.
  • DR, stars, popularity, and vendor marketing are metadata, not proof of compatibility or safety.
  • A recommendation must state its authority, model scope, version, evidence date, and unverified fields.
  • Contributors should disclose relevant employment, sponsorship, free hardware, affiliate relationships, or other material interests during review.

What is still missing

The project does not currently publish a verified list of individual maintainers. This page therefore exposes accountable roles and workflows without pretending that an organization schema proves human expertise. Public names, biographies, and contact profiles should be added only after maintainers explicitly approve them.

Sources

Version history

  • 2026-07-15: Published the first bilingual governance, attribution, correction, and conflict-of-interest statement.

Are the role names on this page personal author identities?
Are the role names on this page personal author identities?
No. They are maintenance responsibilities. SteamOS.Club does not invent a personal byline; a named contributor is shown only when that person chooses public attribution and the contribution can be verified.
How does a correction reach the published documentation?
How does a correction reach the published documentation?
A correction must identify the page, current claim, proposed change, and reproducible or primary evidence. Maintainers review scope, safety, bilingual parity, and conflicts before the production data or article changes.