Who can be considered a maintainer for a project?

[aswanipranjal]

AFAIK a maintainer is a user who has PUSH privileges to a codebase and how can approve of the changes made by other users. Currently the users are being divided into: None, Owner, Collaborator, Contributor and Member. Out of these, I think Only Owner of the repo can be considered as a maintainer because they'll be deciding which code is included into the project or not.

Apart from that, we can set some conditions that if a user X has contributed Y times to a project and is active in solving issues then they can be considered as a maintainer.

We can also set a condition such as Issues.First:_Response(maintainers=['Owner', 'Memberr']) as Jesus @jgbarah suggested here during our meeting.
Start of the discussion.

This is relevant because for calculating #8 , we need to know who the maintainer is.

[jgbarah]

Hi, @aswanipranjal when you say "Currently the users are being divided into: None, Owner, Collaborator, Contributor and Member", you mean in the GitHub API, right?

[aswanipranjal]

Yes, @jgbarah.

[jgbarah]

i'm closing this for now, since this is part of a broader discussion on the concepts that we deal with for the metrics. Please, feel free to reopen if you think it is better to follow on here.