Maintainer note: emulebb-rust is the active contributor lane

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This is the current maintainer note for people looking at where to help.

• eMuleBB MFC 0.7.3 is the shipped stable Windows line and is frozen on 0.7.x except for critical maintenance and non-behavior-expanding diagnostics/instrumentation.
• Active forward development is emulebb-rust: a headless eD2K/Kad client with embedded SPA WebUI, Rust-native /api/v1, SQLite persistence, stock-compatible protocol behavior, and fail-closed VPN safety work.
• qBittorrentBB and TrackMuleBB remain future/parked companion tracks; they are not the current Rust beta dependency.

Good starting points:

• RUST-CI-003: Wire OpenAPI response conformance into CI #15 - RUST-CI-003: OpenAPI response conformance/drift check.
• RUST-REF-005: Decompose oversized Rust modules #7 - RUST-REF-005: small behavior-preserving module decomposition slices.
• RUST-FEAT-036: Settings UI v2 beta-ready controls #16 - RUST-FEAT-036: focused Settings UI v2 controls.

Start with CONTRIBUTING.md in this repo and the public eMuleBB Suite board:
eMuleBB Suite

Avoid #5 (RUST-FEAT-005, automated VPN leak test) as a first task unless you already have the required Windows/VPN test environment.