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diff --git a/maintainers/README.md b/maintainers/README.md index 8289729e2..376c381cf 100644 --- a/maintainers/README.md +++ b/maintainers/README.md @@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ ## Motivation -In order to attract more maintainers and thereby scale the development process to match user needs, the main goal of this team is to improve the Nix contributor experience. +The team's main responsibility is to set a direction for the development of Nix and ensure that the code is in good shape. + +We aim to achieve this by improving the contributor experience and attracting more maintainers – that is, by helping other people contributing to Nix and eventually taking responsibility – in order to scale the development process to match users' needs. ### Objectives @@ -13,10 +15,16 @@ In order to attract more maintainers and thereby scale the development process t ### Tasks -- Elaborate contribution guides and abide to them -- Improve documentation targeted to contributors +- Establish, communicate, and maintain a technical roadmap +- Improve documentation targeted at contributors + - Record architecture and design decisions + - Elaborate contribution guides and abide to them + - Define and assert quality criteria for contributions - Maintain the issue tracker and triage pull requests -- Help competent contributors succeed with their pull requests +- Help contributors succeed with pull requests that address roadmap milestones +- Manage the release lifecycle +- Regularly publish reports on work done +- Engage with third parties in the interest of the project - Ensure the required maintainer capacity for all of the above ## Members |