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OpenStack is in production and being rolled out all over. It's time to get serious about sustaining engineering, often called "Maintainers" in OSS. The community has seen a loss of numbers of developers and tighter focus on filling gaps, along with integrating new/related technologies. This means we need to formalize the contributions of Maintainers to keep the projects healthy.

Maintainers should reduce technical debt: fix bugs, backport to older releases, refactor code for {maintain, scale, read, reliable}*ity, and even help lighten the cost of drive-by contributions.

We need to start the discussion to sketch out the path we think our community could best adopt and incorporate into our DNA. Let's start that discussion here in Vancouver