jungle/doc/maintainers.md

Maintainers

Role of a maintainer

The responsibilities of maintainers are quite lax, and similar in spirit to nixpkgs' maintainers:

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.