Maintainer onboarding

This guide is for repository maintainers responsible for quality and releases.

1. Core responsibilities

• Review pull requests for correctness and backward compatibility
• Ensure test and lint pipelines stay green
• Maintain docs and release notes quality
• Cut and publish tagged releases

2. Review checklist

1. Behavior change is covered by tests.
2. Docs are updated for user-facing changes.
3. No accidental breaking changes in profile slugs, CLI options, or schema.
4. CI workflows still pass (package, docs).

3. Release checklist

1. Bump version in configurator/__about__.py.
2. Confirm task test and task check pass.
3. Tag the release (vX.Y.Z) matching project version.
4. Push tag to trigger GitHub publish workflow.
5. Verify package is published and installable.
6. Validate Skaffold deployment profiles (baseline, develop, main) still point to expected hub image/tag and config file wiring.

4. Security and governance

• Follow SECURITY.md for vulnerability reporting.
• Follow CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md for community interactions.
• Keep templates in .github/ current for issues and PRs.

5. Recommended first reads

• docs/dev/release.md
• CONTRIBUTING.md
• .github/workflows/package.yaml