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 All contributions should be made via a pull request. This is to ensure a certain quality / consistency, that others can rely on.
 
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 ## Maintainer Responsibilities
 
 A recipe maintainer has the following responsibilities:
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 - 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
+
 ## Merge rules
 
 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.