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+---
+name: "Rauthy pull request template"
+about: "Rauthy pull request template"
+---
+
+<!-- 
+Thank you for doing recipe maintenance work!
+Please mark all checklist items which are relevant for your changes.
+Please remove the checklist items which are not relevant for your changes.
+Feel free to remove this comment.
+-->
+
+* [ ] I have deployed and tested my changes
+* [ ] I have [updated relevant versions in `abra.sh`](https://docs.coopcloud.tech/maintainers/upgrade/#updating-versions-in-the-abrash)
+* [ ] I have made my environment variable changes [backwards compatible](https://docs.coopcloud.tech/maintainers/upgrade/#backwards-compatible-environment-variable-changes)
+* [ ] I have added a [release note entry](https://docs.coopcloud.tech/maintainers/upgrade/#creating-new-release-notes)
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+# Rauthy Recipe Maintenance
+
+All contributions should be made via a pull request. This is to ensure a
+certain quality and consistency, that others can rely on.
+
+## Maintainer Responsibilities
+
+A recipe maintainer has the following responsibilities:
+
+- Respond to pull requests / issues within a week
+- Make image security updates within a day
+- Make image patch / minor updates within a week
+- Make image major updates within a month
+
+In order to fullfill these responsibilities a recipe maintainer:
+
+- Has to watch the repository (to get notifications)
+- Needs to make sure renovate is configured properly
+
+## Pull Requests
+
+A pull request can be merged if it is approved by at least one maintainer. For
+pull requests opened by a maintainer they need to be approved by another
+maintainer. Even though it is okay to merge a pull request with one approval, it
+is always better if all maintainers looked at the pull request and approved it.
+
+## Become a maintainer
+
+Everyone can apply to be a recipe maintainer:
+1. Watch the repository to always get updates
+2. Simply add your self to the list in the [README.md](./README.md) and open a new pull request with the change.
+3. Once the pull request gets merged you will be added to the [rauthy maintainers team](https://git.coopcloud.tech/org/coop-cloud/teams/rauthy-maintainers).
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 <!-- metadata -->
 
+* **Maintainer**: [@3wc](https://git.coopcloud.tech/3wordchant), [@decentral1se](https://git.coopcloud.tech/decentral1se)
 * **Category**: Apps
 * **Status**: 0
 * **Image**: [`rauthy`](https://ghcr.io/sebadob/rauthy), 4, upstream