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authorJean Boussier <jean.boussier@gmail.com>2024-01-22 21:57:22 +0100
committerJean Boussier <jean.boussier@gmail.com>2024-01-23 18:02:42 +0100
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List branch maintainers in maintainers.md
I'm not aware of this information being available anywhere else.
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# Maintainers
-This page describes the current module, library, and extension maintainers of Ruby.
+This page describes the current branch, module, library, and extension maintainers of Ruby.
+
+## Branch Maintainers
+
+A branch maintainer is responsible for backporting commits into stable branches
+and publishing Ruby patch releases.
+
+[The list of current branch maintainers is available in the wiki](https://github.com/ruby/ruby/wiki/Release-Engineering).
## Module Maintainers
A module maintainer is responsible for a certain part of Ruby.