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| # New Maintainer Checklist
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| **This is a guide used by existing maintainers to invite new maintainers. You might find it interesting but there's nothing here users should have to know.**
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| 
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| So, there's someone who has been making consistently high-quality contributions to Homebrew for a long time and shown themselves able to make slightly more advanced contributions than just e.g. formula updates? Let's invite them to be a maintainer!
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| 
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| First, send them the invitation email:
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| 
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| ```
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| The Homebrew team and I really appreciate your help on issues, pull requests and
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| your contributions around $THEIR_CONTRIBUTIONS.
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| 
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| We would like to invite you to have commit access. There are no obligations,
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| but we'd appreciate your continuing help in keeping on top of contributions.
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| 
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| A few requests:
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| 
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| - please make pull requests on any changes to Homebrew/brew code or any
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|   non-trivial (e.g. not a test or audit improvement or version bump) changes
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|   to formulae code and don't merge them unless you get at least one approval
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|   and passing tests.
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| - use `brew pull` for formulae changes that require new bottles or change 
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|   multiple formulae and let it auto-close issues wherever possible (it may 
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|   take ~5m). When this isn't necessary use GitHub's "Merge pull request" 
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|   button in "create a merge commit" mode for Homebrew/brew or "squash and 
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|   merge" for a single formulae change. If in doubt, check with e.g. GitX that
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|   you've not accidentally added merge commits
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| - still create your branches on your fork rather than in the main repository
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| - if still in doubt please ask for help and we'll help you out - these are
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|   probably worth a read:
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|     - https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Brew-Test-Bot-For-Core-Contributors.md
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|     - https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Maintainer-Guidelines.md
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|     - possibly everything else in the documentation
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| 
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| How does that sound?
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| 
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| Thanks for all your work so far!
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| ```
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| 
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| If they accept, follow a few steps to get them set up:
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| 
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| - [x] Invite them to the [**@Homebrew/maintainers** team](https://github.com/orgs/Homebrew/teams/maintainers) to give them write access to all repositories (but don't make them owners yet). They will need to enable [GitHub's Two Factor Authentication](https://help.github.com/articles/about-two-factor-authentication/).
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| - [x] Ask them to sign in to [Bintray](https://bintray.com) using their GitHub account and they should auto-sync to [Bintray's Homebrew organisation](https://bintray.com/homebrew/organization/edit/members) as a member so they can publish new bottles
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| - [x] Add them to the [Jenkins' GitHub Authorization Settings admin user names](https://bot.brew.sh/configureSecurity/) so they can adjust settings and restart jobs
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| - [x] Add them to the [Jenkins' GitHub Pull Request Builder admin list](https://bot.brew.sh/configure) to enable `@BrewTestBot test this please` for them
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| - [x] Invite them to the [`homebrew-dev` private maintainers mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!managemembers/homebrew-dev/invite)
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| - [x] Invite them to the [`machomebrew` private maintainers Slack](https://machomebrew.slack.com/admin/invites)
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| - [x] Invite them to the [`homebrew` private maintainers 1Password](https://homebrew.1password.com/signin)
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| - [x] Add them to [Homebrew's README](https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/edit/master/README.md)
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| 
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| After a few weeks/months with no problems consider making them [owners on the Homebrew GitHub organisation](https://github.com/orgs/Homebrew/people).
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| 
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| Now sit back, relax and let the new maintainers handle more of our contributions.
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