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diff --git a/doc/maintainers.md b/doc/maintainers.md index 9e738a6bdd..dabbdc0cb6 100644 --- a/doc/maintainers.md +++ b/doc/maintainers.md @@ -1,5 +1,12 @@ # Maintainers -This page describes the current module, library, and extension maintainers of Ruby. +This page describes the current branch, module, library, and extension maintainers of Ruby. + +## Branch Maintainers + +A branch maintainer is responsible for backporting commits into stable branches +and publishing Ruby patch releases. + +[The list of current branch maintainers is available in the wiki](https://github.com/ruby/ruby/wiki/Release-Engineering). ## Module Maintainers A module maintainer is responsible for a certain part of Ruby. |