This document describes basic expectations for maintainers. To become a maintainer, start taking on these responsibilities. Consistent contributors then discuss with existing maintainers to become the official [MAINTAINERS](./MAINTAINERS).

### Top-level maintainer

- Running the etcd release processes
- Ownership of test and debug infrastructure
- Resolve or redirect issues to keep the issue count low (goal: under 100)
- Regularly review pull requests across all pkgs
- Providing cross pkg design review

### Package/feature maintainer

- Ownership of test and debug failures in a pkg/feature
- Resolution of bugs triaged to a package/feature
- Regularly review pull requests to the pkg subsystem