From 4370cf8d004f46077b637adb2f7203c703f5c11b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: notplants <@notplants>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:26:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] docs: add recipe maintenance policy

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 MAINTENANCE.md | 15 +++++++++++++++
 README.md      |  3 ++-
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 create mode 100644 MAINTENANCE.md

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+# Lasuite-Meet Recipe Maintenance
+
+All contributions should be made via pull requests.
+
+## Pull Requests
+
+A pull request can be merged directly into `main` by any maintainer. No approval is needed, but pull requests should be tested as working before merge.
+
+## Become a maintainer
+
+Everyone can apply to be a recipe maintainer:
+
+1. Watch the repository to get updates.
+2. Add yourself to the list in [README.md](./README.md) and open a pull request with the change.
+3. Once the pull request is merged, you will be added to the [La Suite maintainers team](https://git.coopcloud.tech/org/coop-cloud/teams/lasuite-maintainers).
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -144,4 +144,5 @@ See `docs/multinode.md` for multi-node deployment considerations.
 
 ## Maintainers
 
-coop cloud recipe maintained by @notplants
+* @trav
+* @notplants