# Maintainership in projects **URL:** \ **Category:** Project Discussions\ **Tags:** contribute, community, collections\ **Created:** [December 8, 2023, 12:05pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/maintainership-in-projects/2806 "2023-12-08T12:05:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rndmh3ro](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/rndmh3ro/32/269_2.png) [@rndmh3ro](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rndmh3ro)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2023, 12:05pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/maintainership-in-projects/2806/1 "2023-12-08T12:05:54Z")
Hi everyone! My team is a frequent user of the community-roles [ansible-nomad](https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-nomad), [ansible-consul](https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-consul) and the [grafana-community-collection](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.grafana/issues/217). However all of them seem to lack someone who’s willing to maintain them. But we are. 🙂 How can we help getting these roles and collections off the ground again? We’d very much like to be maintainers. ---
**Author:** ![samccann](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/samccann/32/18_2.png) [@samccann](https://forum.ansible.com/u/samccann)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2023, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/maintainership-in-projects/2806/2 "2023-12-08T15:10:12Z")
Thanks @rndmh3ro ! I don’t know the exact process myself, but someone else on the [@CommunityTeam](https://forum.ansible.com/groups/communityteam) I’m sure does. As a start, I can point to the [maintainer guidelines](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/maintainers.html) in the docs that might get you started. And thanks again for volunteering to take this on! ---
**Author:** ![rndmh3ro](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/rndmh3ro/32/269_2.png) [@rndmh3ro](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rndmh3ro)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2023, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/maintainership-in-projects/2806/3 "2023-12-08T15:50:58Z")
Thanks! I should have added that we already maintain several collections ([See](https://github.com/orgs/telekom-mms/repositories?q=ansible), among them the [Icinga director collection](https://github.com/telekom-mms/ansible-collection-icinga-director) that is part of ansible. So we’ve got some experience there. But I’ll make sure to review the guidelines again. ---
**Author:** ![felixfontein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/felixfontein/32/7530_2.png) [@felixfontein](https://forum.ansible.com/u/felixfontein)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2023, 5:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/maintainership-in-projects/2806/4 "2023-12-08T17:10:16Z")
For ansible-nomad and ansible-consul I recommend creating issues to offer helping with maintaining them. I couldn’t find any such issues yet (but then I also didn’t look too closely). Make sure to ping the persons who committed/merged to the repositories in the last years so they shouldn’t miss this. For community.grafana it’s probably best to ping the current maintainers (someone needs to look up who these are, the community team should be able to do that) and give them a bit more time to react. If there is no reaction, or only positive feedback, getting you added as maintainers by the community team should be no problem. (I’m saying that as someone who’s not part of the community team, but I can’t think of a reason why they wouldn’d do that 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![rndmh3ro](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/rndmh3ro/32/269_2.png) [@rndmh3ro](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rndmh3ro)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 8:52am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/maintainership-in-projects/2806/5 "2023-12-11T08:52:41Z")
Thanks Felix! For c.grafana I already did this: [Looking for contributors/maintainers · Issue #217 · ansible-collections/community.grafana · GitHub](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.grafana/issues/217) For nomad and consul I did this here: [Helping with maintaining the collection · Issue #180 · ansible-community/ansible-nomad · GitHub](https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-nomad/issues/180) ---
**Author:** ![gwmngilfen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gwmngilfen/32/6_2.png) [@gwmngilfen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gwmngilfen)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 9:49am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/maintainership-in-projects/2806/6 "2023-12-11T09:49:00Z")
Great stuff @rndmh3ro - thanks for stepping up! ❤ 🎉 Those issues seem like a good place to start, and as @felixfontein says, we can help if you get no traction in a while. Keep us updated with your progress, please! ---
**Author:** ![Leo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/leo/32/23_2.png) [@Leo](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Leo)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 8:39am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/maintainership-in-projects/2806/7 "2023-12-21T08:39:28Z")
> [@rndmh3ro](#): > > How can we help getting these roles and collections off the ground again? We’d very much like to be maintainers. It’s great to see someone offering to maintain orphaned collections! As mention by all, thanks for that! > [@rndmh3ro](#): > > I should have added that we already maintain several collections ([See](https://github.com/orgs/telekom-mms/repositories?q=ansible), among them the [Icinga director collection](https://github.com/telekom-mms/ansible-collection-icinga-director) that is part of ansible. So we’ve got some experience there. Seeing you are already maintaining quite a few collections, I would suggest you join the [@CollectionMaintainer](https://forum.ansible.com/groups/collectionmaintainer) group here: [Collection maintainers & contributors - Ansible](http://forum.ansible.com/g/CollectionMaintainer?asc=true) , it’s going to become increasingly important to stay up to date on news affecting collection developers and maintainers! By the way, are you sharing those collections in the new [Galaxy](https://galaxy.ansible.com)? ---
**Author:** ![rndmh3ro](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/rndmh3ro/32/269_2.png) [@rndmh3ro](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rndmh3ro)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 1:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/maintainership-in-projects/2806/8 "2023-12-21T13:26:22Z")
Thanks @Leo, I joined the group. And yes, all our collections are already in the new galaxy: [Ansible Galaxy](https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/namespaces/telekom_mms/) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![rndmh3ro](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/rndmh3ro/32/269_2.png) [@rndmh3ro](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rndmh3ro)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/maintainership-in-projects/2806/9 "2024-01-04T14:49:57Z")
We are maintainers in the collections and roles now, thank you all for your help!