Clear Your Own Path to Open Source Maintainer
summary
Practical roadmap for moving from first contribution to maintainer: use Helm and related projects (Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry) as case studies, follow the Helm 3 docs and reproduce failures, open PRs to fix documentation, do regular triage issues and PR reviews, join Slack/meetings and volunteer for bulk triage or CI work (GitHub/GitHub Actions). Example: a mentee becomes committer in ~6 months and maintainer in ~9 months; maintainers later take on fuzzing/security and nomination processes.
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