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ToolHive Contribution and Maintainership

We welcome additional contributors to ToolHive, including maintainers. ToolHive currently has a two-tier contributor structure:

Role Description Privileges
Contributor Anyone who participates in the project! Send / update PRs
Maintainer Consistent contributors who have shown commitment to the project Review and merge PRs, manage issues

Contributors

See CONTRIBUTING.md for a description of how to get started contributing to ToolHive.

Requirements for Becoming a Maintainer

To become a maintainer, you must meet the following criteria:

  1. Account Security
  1. Demonstrated Contribution:

    • Have made multiple significant contributions to ToolHive's GitHub repositories. This can include:
      • PR contributions to at least one ToolHive subsystem (CLI, Operator, or related components)
      • PR reviews of at least one ToolHive subsystem
      • Documentation and issue triage
      • Community engagement and support
  2. Sponsorship:

    • Sponsored by at least one existing maintainer.

Responsibilities of a Maintainer

As a maintainer, you will have the following responsibilities:

  1. Code Review and Merging:

    • Review pull requests for quality, correctness, and alignment with the project direction.
      • When in doubt, assign pull requests to subject matter experts in the relevant subsystem.
    • Merge reviewed pull requests when satisfactory.
  2. Set Technical Direction:

    • Where appropriate, participate in authoring and reviewing technical design documents and proposals in the docs/proposals/ directory.
    • Contribute to architectural decisions for ToolHive's CLI, Kubernetes Operator, and MCP server management capabilities.
  3. Community Engagement:

    • Help maintain a welcoming and inclusive community environment.
    • Participate in discussions on GitHub issues and in the ToolHive Discord.
    • Assist with triaging issues and providing guidance to new contributors.

Maintainers List

The current list of ToolHive maintainers:

Becoming a Maintainer

If you're interested in becoming a maintainer and meet the requirements above:

  1. Reach out to an existing maintainer or the core team
  2. Provide examples of your contributions to ToolHive
  3. Get sponsorship from an existing maintainer
  4. The maintainer team will review your application and make a decision

For questions about maintainership, please reach out in our Discord community or open an issue in this repository.