astropy-project Pathway from contributor to maintainer

I think this has been brought up from time to time, but I cannot seem to find an official issue for it. If you find one, we can close this (or that other one) as duplicate.

There is a need to formally document our expectations so a contributor is aware how one can go from being a contributor with no write access to a maintainer with write access. We can start with astropy and then downstream can adopt/adapt as needed.

I think this is a pre-cursor for:

https://github.com/astropy/astropy-project/issues/158

Oct 09 '24 19:10 pllim

The mentoring scheme is probably relevant here: https://astropy-mentoring.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Oct 09 '24 23:10 astrofrog

Ah, right. I forgot about that doc page. Maybe @taldcroft can chime in on the mentoring stuff.

Oct 10 '24 14:10 pllim

Is now a "red" status on Astropy Roadmap as per Astropy Coordination Meeting 2025.

Jul 02 '25 22:07 pllim