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+# Maintainers
+
+## Role of a maintainer
+The responsibilities of maintainers are quite lax, and similar in spirit to
+[nixpkgs' maintainers][1]:
+
+    The main responsibility of a maintainer is to keep the packages they
+    maintain in a functioning state, and keep up with updates. In order to do
+    that, they are empowered to make decisions over the packages they maintain.
+
+    That being said, the maintainer is not alone in proposing changes to the
+    packages. Anybody (both bots and humans) can send PRs to bump or tweak the
+    package.
+
+In practice, this means that when updating or proposing changes to a package,
+we will notify maintainers by mentioning them in Gitea so they can test changes
+and give feedback.
+
+Since we do bi-yearly release cycles, there is no expectation from maintainers
+to update packages at each upstream release. Nevertheless, on each release cycle
+we may request help from maintainers when updating or testing their packages.
+
+## Becoming a maintainer
+
+
+You'll have to add yourself in the `maintainers.nix` list; your username should
+match your `bsc.es` email. Then you can add yourself to the `meta.maintainers`
+of any package you are interested in maintaining.
+
+[1]: [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/nixos-25.05/maintainers]