CALL FOR "Maintainer Liaison"

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Tom Limoncelli

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Apr 15, 2025, 7:48:42 PMApr 15
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DNSControl has a growing number of volunteers that maintain providers ("maintainers"). It would be useful to have a volunteer who would maintain our relationship with them. This would free up Tom for more technical work.

The "Maintainer Liaison" would be responsible for:
  1. Maintaining the list of maintainers (including non-public email addresses for each)
  2. Keeping the CODEOWNERS, OWNERS, and other lists up to date.
  3. Onboarding/offboarding maintainers
  4. Periodically contacting maintainers to verify they are still active, enforcing the Expectations of maintainers rules.
  5. Publishing a "call for volunteer" when maintainers step down or our inaccessible.
  6. Recommend policy changes related to maintainers

A good first project would be to reach out to current maintainers to verify status and invite them to join the

Interested?  Email me!

Tom

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Tom Limoncelli (he/him)
SRE, Stack Overflow, Inc.

Tom Limoncelli

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Apr 15, 2025, 7:49:31 PMApr 15
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> A good first project would be to reach out to current maintainers to verify status and invite them to join the

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