Maintain a Project at LFDT

Welcome

Maintainers steward projects at LFDT. You set direction, grow contributors, ship secure releases, and uphold open governance.
This section gives you playbooks, templates, and requirements so you can focus on building great software.
If you're new, start with New Maintainer Onboarding — a 10–30 minute primer to get you ready.

• New Project Onboarding

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  For projects joining LFDT: requirements, readiness steps, repository structure, governance setup, and what’s needed for TAC review.

• New Maintainer Onboarding

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  For individuals becoming maintainers: expectations, responsibilities, access setup, and a first-30-days guide for joining a project’s leadership.

• Community Playbook

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  Learn how to run inclusive meetings, triage issues, review PRs effectively, and grow contributors.

• Governance

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  Understand MAINTAINERS.md, decision-making, elections, subprojects, and inactivity & succession policies.

• End User Engagement

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  Simple steps for engaging real-world users and turning feedback into upstream momentum.

• Templates & Checklists

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  Ready-to-use templates: CONTRIBUTING.md, MAINTAINERS.md, governance docs, election processes, issue/PR templates.