Homebrew Leadership Responsibilities

Project Leader Sole Responsibilities

• manage all day-to-day technical decisions
• resolve disputes related to the operation of Homebrew between maintainers, other contributors, and users
• product management for the various Homebrew products
• each quarter: checking for activity of maintainers and asking them to step down if they have not been active enough in the past quarters
• organising the AGM (with delegation of tasks to other maintainers)

Lead Maintainers Sole Responsibilities

• decide on technical disputes between Homebrew maintainers and the Project Leader

Project Leader and Lead Maintainers Shared Responsibilities

• blocking abusive GitHub users
• approving Open Collective expenses that are expected or have already been agreed upon by the Lead Maintainers (e.g. Homebrew cloud usage on a personal credit card) (only one approval needed)
• voting on approving new Homebrew maintainers
• voting on maintainer hardware grants (before they are purchased)
• voting on maintainer hackathon/conference/AGM travel expenses (before they are booked)
• responding to and handling Code of Conduct complaints