Document how to be a maintainer about contribute.jquery.org HOT 12 CLOSED

I am really interested on this one. The gist text is totally useful. 👍

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Looks like we already have a page for maintainers that was created after this issue was created.

https://github.com/jquery/contribute.jquery.org/blob/master/pages/repo-maintainers-guide.md

My question is should this be linked up somewhere on the site. I had no idea this was available and just had a conversation with @dmethvin about documenting the proper way of how to do a PR merge when I found this page in the repo.

cc: @scottgonzalez

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It's part of https://github.com/jquery/foundation/wiki/HOWTO-add-a-team-member (last item).
@scottgonzalez pointed it out to me recently.

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That's silly why are we hiding this kind of documentation? There doesn't seem to be anything there that's "confidential" Technically only new team members will be exposed to this info and existing team members potentially have no idea it exists.

I'd love to see this linked up from somewhere to make it more accessible.

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If everyone agrees, I'll be happy to think of a way to link this and any other documents deemed worthy for improved visibility.

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With "link" you mean to just put it online somewhere else right? Just because if you just link to private repos nobody can't open it even.

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It's not about it being confidential, it's about not confusing new contributors. There's obviously nothing confidential, it's a public page and it shows up in search results. Where exactly should we would put a link to this that wouldn't confuse new contributors?

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@arthurvr The list that @agcolom provided doesn't need to be linked from anywhere and doesn't need to be public, that's not what's being discussed.

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I have two thoughts:

1. A link in the left nav called Repository Maintainers
2. A section at the bottom of http://contribute.jquery.org/open-source/ called Repository Maintainers with a little content to describe who a maintainer is and a link to the page.

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@RedWolves @scottgonzalez @arthurvr How about adding a new heading in the left nav with the title "For maintainers..." just trying to keep it consistent with the existing tone on this menu...

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That looks good to me.

Regarding https://github.com/jquery/contribute.jquery.org/blob/master/pages/repo-maintainers-guide.md - we can heavily simplify the CLA section, now that its mostly automated.

// Nevermind, Anne already logged that as #115

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Seems fine to me.

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