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Leadership

This section covers leadership topics for maintainers, including responsibilities, community management, and technical leadership principles.

This guidance provides practical steps and checklists for maintainers and technical leads.

Recommended practices

  • Document roles and responsibilities (see responsibilities.md).
  • Run regular public meetings and publish minutes.
  • Maintain clear contributing and governance docs; link these in your repository's README.
  • Use maintainership ladders and onboarding labels to help new contributors.
  • Implement repository protections, CI, and automated security checks.