websoft9/docs/MAINTAINERS.md

# Documentation for core maintainers

This documentaion is from [jenkins MAINTAINERS](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/blob/master/docs/MAINTAINERS.adoc) which have a paradigm of rigorous open source project maintenance

## Scope

This document applies to the following components:

- Websoft9 core
- Websoft9 core plugins
- docker-library

## Roles

| Role/job     | submit pr | review pr | assign pr | merge pr | close pr | create issue | manage issue | release |
| ------------ | --------- | --------- | --------- | -------- | -------- | ------------ | ------------ | ------- |
| Contributor  | √         |           |           |          |          | √            |              |         |
| Issue Team   | √         |           |           |          |          | √            | √            |         |
| PR Reviewer  | √         | √         |           |          |          | √            |              |         |
| Release Team | √         |           |           |          |          | √            |              | √       |
| Maintainer   | √         | √         | √         | √        | √        | √            |              |         |
| PR Assignee  |           |           |           | √        |          | √            |              |         |


* **Contributor**: submit pull requests to the Jenkins core and review changes submitted by others. There are no special preconditions to do so. Anyone is welcome to contribute.
* **Issue Triage Team Member**: review the incoming issues: bug reports, requests for enhancement, etc. Special permissions are not required to take this role or to contribute.
* **Core Pull Request Reviewer**: A team for contributors who are willing to regularly review pull requests and eventually become core maintainers.
* **Core Maintainer**: Get permissions in the repository, and hence they are able to merge pull requests.Their responsibility is to perform pull request reviews on a regular basis and to bring pull requests to closure, either by merging ready pull requests towards weekly releases ( branch) or by closing pull requests that are not ready for merge because of submitter inaction after an extended period of time.
* **Pull Request Assignee**: Core maintainers make a commitment to bringing a pull request to closure by becoming an Assignee. They are also responsible to monitor the weekly release status and to perform triage of critical issues. 
* **Release Team Member**: Responsible for Websoft9 weekly and LTS releases

## Pull request review process

## Pull request Merge process

## Issue triage

## Release process

## Tools

## Communication