Who are the Go maintainers?

[Matt Hickford]

https://go.dev/doc/contribute says "Only Go maintainers (also referred
to as “approvers”) can cast a +2 vote."

Who are the Go maintainers? Is this the same set of people as
https://github.com/orgs/golang/people (seems to be mostly Googlers and
ex-Googlers)? Or a subset?

[Alberto Donizetti]

> Who are the Go maintainers?

In this context, anyone who is part of the "approvers" group on
the Go gerrit instance (https://go-review.googlesource.com). The group
itself and the list of its members are not publicy visible, I believe.


> Is this the same set of people as github.com/orgs/golang/people

No, the github org and gerrit are two separate things. non-googlers
frequent contributors can ask for access as described in these wiki
pages:

https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GerritAccess
https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GithubAccess

Having gerrit access mostly means "code reviews", github access means
"issue tracker gardening". Github access will make your account appear
in the github org you linked. Some people may ask for gerrit access
but not for github access, or viceversa.

Alberto