Minder Contribution and Maintainership

We welcome additional contributors to Minder, including maintainers. Minder currently has a two-tier contributor structure:

Role	Description	Privileges
Contributor	Anyone who participates in the project!	Send / update PRs
Maintainer	Consistent contributors who have shown commitment to the project	Review and merge PRs, manage issues

Contributors

See CONTRIBUTING.md for a description of how to get started contributing to Minder.

To become a maintainer, you must meet the following criteria:

Demonstrated Contribution:
- Have made multiple significant contributions to Minder's GitHub repositories. This can include:
  - PR contributions to at least one Minder subystem
  - PR reviews of at least one Minder subsystem
  - Documentation and issue triage
Sponsorship:
- Sponsored by at least one existing maintainer.

Maintainers

As a maintainer, you will have the following responsibilities:

Code Review and Merging:
- Review pull requests for quality, correctness, and alignment with the project direction.
  - When in doubt, assign pull requests to subject matter experts in the relevant subsystem.
- Merge reviewed pull requests when satisfactory.
Set Technical Direction:
- Where appropriate, participate in authoring and reviewing technical design documents.
  - Note: many project documents are currently in the Stacklok Google Drive instance. We are working to open the relevant documents for community review and feedback.