The Core Team
The direction of the project and its official extensions is being stewarded by the RuboCop core team. This group of long-term contributors manages releases, evaluates pull-requests, and does a lot of the groundwork on major new features. Here are the current members of the RuboCop core team, listed in the order of joining it:
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Bozhidar Batsov (author & head maintainer)
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Koichi Ito (also head maintainer of RuboCop Rails, RuboCop Performance and RuboCop Minitest)
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Benjamin Quorning (also head maintainer of RuboCop RSpec)
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Marc-André Lafortune (also head maintainer of RuboCop AST)
RuboCop Alumni
In addition, we’d like to extend a special thanks the following retired RuboCop core team members. Lovingly known as The Alumni:
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Yuji Nakayama (also author of
guard-rubocop)
Joining the Core Team
We’re always looking for more people to join our Core Team, as there’s plenty of work to go around. There’s no formal procedure for applying to the team, but it’s fairly straightforward to get an invitation to join it:
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contribute consistently over an extended period of time (e.g. 6-12 months)
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demonstrate a passion for what we’re doing
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eventually an invitation will be extended to you to become part of RuboCop’s team