**This is a guide used by existing maintainers to invite new maintainers. You might find it interesting but there's nothing here users should have to know.**
So, there's someone who has been making consistently high-quality contributions to Homebrew for a long time and shown themselves able to make slightly more advanced contributions than just e.g. formula updates? Let's invite them to be a maintainer!
First, send them the invitation email:
```
The Homebrew team and I really appreciate your help on issues, pull requests and
your contributions around making our testing better.
We would like to invite you to have commit access. There are no obligations,
but we'd appreciate your continuing help in keeping on top of contributions.
A few requests:
- please make pull requests on any changes to core (i.e. non-formula) code or
any non-trivial (e.g. not a test or audit improvement or version bump)
changes to formulae code and don't merge them unless you get at least one +1
- use `brew pull` and let it auto-close issues wherever possible (it may take
~5m). When this isn't possible always use `git pull --rebase`, `git rebase`
and `git cherry-pick` rather than `git merge` and never use GitHub's "Merge
pull request" button. If in doubt, check with GitX that you've not
accidentally added merge commits
- still create your branches on your fork rather than in the main repository
- if still in doubt please ask for help and we'll help you out - these are
If they accept, follow a few steps to get them set up:
-[x] Invite them to the [**@Homebrew/core** team](https://github.com/orgs/Homebrew/teams/core) to give them write access to all repositories (but not administrator access yet)
-[x] Ask them to sign up for a [Bintray](https://bintray.com) account and invite them to [Bintray's Homebrew organisation](https://bintray.com/homebrew/organization/edit/members) as a member (but not administrator access yet) so they can publish new bottles
-[x] Add them to the [Jenkins' GitHub Authorization Settings admin user names](http://bot.brew.sh/configureSecurity/) so they can adjust settings and restart jobs
-[x] Add them to the [Jenkins' GitHub Pull Request Builder admin list](http://bot.brew.sh/configure) to enable `@BrewTestBot test this please` for them
-[x] Invite them to the [`homebrew-dev` private maintainers mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!managemembers/homebrew-dev/invite)
-[x] Add them to [Homebrew's README](https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/edit/master/README.md)
-[x] Encourage them to enable [GitHub's Two Factor Authentication](https://help.github.com/articles/about-two-factor-authentication/)
After a few weeks/months with no problems consider making them administrators on the [**@Homebrew/owners**](https://github.com/orgs/Homebrew/teams/owners) and [Bintray](https://bintray.com/homebrew/organization/edit/members) teams.
Now sit back, relax and let the new maintainers handle more of our contributions.
