From a846d391d38b34fcc4f90adef967c166c923bd56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jean Boussier Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 21:57:22 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] List branch maintainers in maintainers.md I'm not aware of this information being available anywhere else. --- doc/maintainers.md | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/maintainers.md b/doc/maintainers.md index 9e738a6bdd..dabbdc0cb6 100644 --- a/doc/maintainers.md +++ b/doc/maintainers.md @@ -1,5 +1,12 @@ # Maintainers -This page describes the current module, library, and extension maintainers of Ruby. +This page describes the current branch, module, library, and extension maintainers of Ruby. + +## Branch Maintainers + +A branch maintainer is responsible for backporting commits into stable branches +and publishing Ruby patch releases. + +[The list of current branch maintainers is available in the wiki](https://github.com/ruby/ruby/wiki/Release-Engineering). ## Module Maintainers A module maintainer is responsible for a certain part of Ruby.