Welcome to the Maintainer Community

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• The Carpentries is a community of practice. We strive to provide a welcoming environment for all learners and take our Code of Conduct seriously.
• This training will prepare you to get started in your role as a Maintainer.

Communicating with Contributors

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• Valuing all contributions is one of The Carpentries Core Values.
• Not all contributions can, or should, be accepted.

Communicating with Other Maintainers

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• The Maintainer community communicates on TopicBox, Slack, and GitHub.
• The Maintainer community meets monthly.

Communicating with Curriculum Advisors

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• The Curriculum Advisory Committee consultation rubric outlines division of responsibilities between Maintainers and Curriculum Advisors.

Infrastructure for Lesson Maintenance

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• The Carpentries lessons share a consistent style, which is controlled by The Carpentries Workbench and documented in the Introduction to The Carpentries Workbench.

The Carpentries Git Workflow

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• It can be helpful to clone a pull request branch to your computer and build a local version of the lesson to see how a contributor’s changes will look in the website
• As a Maintainer, you can choose to edit your lesson using branches on the repository or on your fork