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+# Zulip Recipe Maintenance
+Adapted from [Traefik recipe](https://git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/traefik) MAINTENANCE.md
+
+All contributions should be made via a pull request. This is to ensure a certain quality / consistency, that others can rely on.
+
+## Maintainer Responsibilities
+
+A recipe maintainer has the following responsibilities:
+
+- Respond to pull requests / issues within two weeks
+- Make image security updates within a week
+- Make image major updates every three months
+
+In order to fulfill 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
+1. Simply add yourself to the list in the [README.md](./README.md) and open a new pull request with the change.
+1. Once the pull request gets merged you will be added to the [Zulip maintainers team](https://git.coopcloud.tech/org/coop-cloud/teams/zulip-maintainers).
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 <!-- metadata -->
 
+* **Maintainer**: [@sorrel](https://git.coopcloud.tech/oxaliq)
+* **Status**: unstable
 * **Category**: Apps
-* **Status**: wip
+* **Features**: null
 * **Image**: [`zulip`](https://hub.docker.com/r/zulip), 4, upstream
-* **Healthcheck**:
-* **Backups**:
-* **Email**:
-* **Tests**:
-* **SSO**:
-
+* **Healthcheck**: No
+* **Backups**: No
+* **Email**: No
+* **Tests**: 0
+* **SSO**: None
 <!-- endmetadata -->
 
 ## Quick start
 
+Recipe is currently unstable, these instructions may not yield a working app.
+
 * `abra app new zulip`
 * `abra app secret insert <app-domain> smtp_password v1 <smtp-password>` (A working SMTP server is required for setup)
 * `abra app secret g -a <app-domain>`