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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.

  • Maintainer Onboarding

    New to maintaining a project at LFDT? Start here for essential roles, expectations, and setup steps.

  • Community Playbook

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

  • Governance

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

  • Security

    Follow security best practices: SECURITY.md, vulnerability response, SLSA, release signing & provenance.

  • Operations

    Repository structure, CI/CD checks, release taxonomy, and how to complete project updates & annual reviews.

  • Templates & Checklists

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

Required LFDT Policies & Processes

These are LFDT requirements that every project must follow. Each topic is linked from the subpages above:

  • Project updates (periodic) and Annual Review to TAC
  • Inactivity policy & succession
  • Common repository structure (docs/, security/, governance/)
  • SECURITY.md (contact & embargo)
  • Release taxonomy (SemVer), release signing, provenance/SBOM

Reference Guidelines

Maintainer Governance

Project Requirements

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