---
title: Maintainers guide
---

Welcome to the maintainers guide! Maintainers are typically individuals who have a stake in building up and maintaining our digital configuration commons, the recipe configurations. Maintainers help keep recipes configurations up to date, respond to issues in a timely manner, help new users within the community and recruit new maintainers when possible.

- [New maintainers tutorial](/maintainers/tutorial): If you want to package a recipe and/or become a maintainer, start here :rocket:
- [Packaging handbook](/maintainers/handbook): One-stop shop for all you need to know to package recipes :package: