Hi all,

Now that the tf.org project maintenance process [1] has been finalized, it is time to think about electing new maintainers for the project. We are delighted to announce that the following contributors have been appointed maintainers by their peers:

- Julius Werner (Google) - Varun Wadekar (NVIDIA) - Andre Przywara (Arm) - Lauren Wehrmeister (Arm) - Madhukar Pappireddy (Arm)

As outlined in [1], here is the definition and responsibilities of maintainers:

------------8<------------ There are a number of maintainers assigned to the project. The project keeps a list of them along with their contact information. Maintainers don't necessarily need a deep domain expertise of all areas of the project, instead they look at the project from a high level perspective. They are expected to ensure that changes adhere to the project's quality criteria, to its architectural direction, to its threat model and so on.

Code owners and maintainers are complementary roles.

Unlike code owners, maintainers can approve any patch, no matter what module it concerns. They are responsible for ensuring patches have had enough overall review and adding their own approval in a timely manner.

They also have merge rights, i.e. the ability to merge a patch in the tree once it has received all required approvals. ------------8<------------

These people have been granted Code-Review -2/+2 rights in Gerrit and have been added in the maintainers.rst file as part of this patch:

https://review.trustedfirmware.org/c/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a/+/4298

Congratulations to them!

Best regards, Sandrine

[1] https://developer.trustedfirmware.org/w/collaboration/project-maintenance-pr...