Pathway from contributor to maintainer

[pllim]

I think this has been brought up from time to time, but I cannot seem to find an official issue for it. If you find one, we can close this (or that other one) as duplicate.

There is a need to formally document our expectations so a contributor is aware how one can go from being a contributor with no write access to a maintainer with write access. We can start with astropy and then downstream can adopt/adapt as needed.

I think this is a pre-cursor for:

• Onboarding for new maintainers and admins #158

[astrofrog]

The mentoring scheme is probably relevant here: https://astropy-mentoring.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

[pllim]

Ah, right. I forgot about that doc page. Maybe @taldcroft can chime in on the mentoring stuff.

[pllim]

Is now a "red" status on Astropy Roadmap as per Astropy Coordination Meeting 2025.