# How to become a maintainer

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-become-a-maintainer/45463>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Tags:** collections\
**Created:** [March 2, 2026, 6:50am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-become-a-maintainer/45463 "2026-03-02T06:50:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![ieisystem](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/ieisystem/32/1263_2.png) [@ieisystem](https://forum.ansible.com/u/ieisystem)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2026, 6:50am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-become-a-maintainer/45463/1 "2026-03-02T06:50:19Z")

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I want to become a maintainer of the Ansible collection. I checked the requirements for [becoming a maintainer](https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible/devel/community/maintainers_guidelines.html#id4) through the document . The document states that if one is interested and meets the requirements, they can voluntarily apply to become a maintainer.  
I’m not quite sure. I need to go there to make the nomination.  
Additionally, I have also maintained an Ansible collection of my own, named [ieisystem.inmanage](https://github.com/ieisystem/ieisystem.inmanage). This collection is under my account and not under any of the Ansible-related accounts. However, this collection can be found in the [Ansible docs](https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible/latest/collections/ieisystem/inmanage/index.html#plugins-in-ieisystem-inmanage), so is my approach considered as part of the maintainer’s responsibility? If I am not a maintainer, what should I do to become one?

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**Author:** ![mariolenz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/mariolenz/32/108_2.png) [@mariolenz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/mariolenz)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2026, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-become-a-maintainer/45463/2 "2026-03-02T17:04:42Z")

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I’m not sure if I understand the problem here. Since you’re already maintaining the `ieisystem.inmanage` collection, you _are_ the maintainer (or one of the maintainers) of this collection.

The doc you link to states that it provides guidance for:

> - Contributors to collections who want to join maintainer teams.
> - Collection maintainers seeking to understand their roles better.

Since you’re already maintaining `ieisystem.inmanage`, you clearly don’t fall in the first category. So is this about showing up as a maintainer somewhere, or becoming maintainer of another collection? If it’s the latter, ask the current maintainers if they would allow you to join them and give you the appropriate permissions. But it doesn’t sound like your question is about this.

BTW I think this documentation is mainly about collections from the community. By this I don’t mean collections in the community _namespace_ but ones the are not run by a company but by the community. Companies usually don’t like to give maintainer rights to someone from the community at large, preferring to keep this “in the family”.

Or do you just want to be mentioned [here](https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible/latest/collections/ieisystem/inmanage/index.html)? In that case, please be aware that to the best of my knowledge the collections shows up there because it’s part of the [Ansible Community Package](https://pypi.org/project/ansible/). The author is the one mentioned in [galaxy.yml](https://github.com/ieisystem/ieisystem.inmanage/blob/4.0.0/galaxy.yml). If you want to show up there, at least as long as the collection is part of the ACP, just add you as an author. It doesn’t show up on [galaxy](https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/ieisystem/inmanage/?version=4.0.0) as far as I can see, though.

@samccann I think you’re much into documentation, so I’d like you to ask this question: Are the authors in `galaxy.yml` meant to be the maintainers? I dimly remember that I’ve talked to someone somewhere about this already, but can’t find the discussion at the moment. And, anyway, this might have changed since then.