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by Beltalowda 1328 days ago
I have no desire to poo-poo your contributions, but with 30 commits over a 2 year period and very sporadic engagement on the issue tracker, "contributor" seems completely fair but "maintainer" seems a bit much.

Maintainers are the people who are involved reasonably consistently for the long term, and also do the un-sexy work of tracking down the (sometimes difficult) bugs people report, triage the (unclear) issues people report, deal with generic support requests, and all of that.

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True, there are definitely better and more consistent developers than me on the project. However, that's the term the gitea project uses. I should've linked to the maintainers list: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/main/MAINTAINERS