Each community member may progress to become a maintainer.
There are two ways to become a maintainer:
How to become a maintainer:
- Contribute significantly to the code in this repository.
- Contribute significantly to the doc or being recognized as great help by other contributors.
### Code maintainers contribution requirement
### Maintainers contribution requirement
The requirement to be able to be proposed as a code maintainer is:
The requirement to be able to be proposed as a maintainer is:
- 5 significant changes on code have been authored in this repos by the proposed maintainer and accepted (merged PRs).
### Other maintainers contribution requirement
The requirements to be able to be proposed as a non-code maintainer are:
- 5 significant changes on documentation have been authored in this repos by the proposed maintainer and accepted (merged pull-requests (PR), excluding hyperledger/besu-doc repos contribution).
- or 5 significant support answers on official public channels that solved the user issue.
- or being recognised as a fully involved and significant help for issue triage and assignment or roadmap planning effort and code review by other maintainers.
There is no number defined for these criteria as the vote will decide if the criteria are valid.
### Maintainers approval process
For both types of maintainers, the following steps must occur for a contributor to be "upgraded" as a maintainer:
The following steps must occur for a contributor to be "upgraded" as a maintainer:
- The proposed maintainer meets the expectations for the targeted maintainership type (see [code](#code-maintainers-contribution-requirement) and [non code](#other-maintainers-contribution-requirement) types.)
- The proposed maintainer has the sponsorship of at least one other maintainer.
- This sponsoring maintainer will create a proposal PR modifying the list of
maintainers. (see [proposal PR template](#proposal-pr-template).)
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I propose to add [maintainer github handle] as a Besu project maintainer.
<!-- for code contributors -->
[maintainer github handle] contributed with many high quality commits:
- [list significant achievements]
Here are [their past contributions on Besu project](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/commits?author=[user github handle]).
<!-- for non-code contributors -->
[maintainer github handle] contributed with many high quality actions:
- [list significant actions]
Voting ends two weeks from today.
For more information on this process see the Becoming a Maintainer section in the MAINTAINERS.md file.
Sally MacFarlane
3 years ago
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