Maintainer Guide

This section covers everything beyond day-to-day development — docs, translations, CI, releases, governance, and the Claude Code skills that automate the heavier parts of the workflow.

In this section

• Docs & Translations — building docs locally, filling Fluent app strings and .po doc strings, adding a new locale
• CI & Actions — workflow inventory, build cache behavior, allowed-actions policy, triage when CI goes red
• Claude Code Skills — in-repo skills for PR reviews, issue triage, squash-merging, changelog generation
• PR workflow — branch protection, DoR/DoD, AI-assisted contribution policy, failure recovery
• Reviewer playbook — review depth matrix, intake triage, automation override, queue hygiene
• Labels — single source of truth for every label and its automation status
• Superseding PRs — when to supersede, attribution rules, PR and commit templates
• Release runbook — verification, tag cut, monitor, post-release validation, downstream publishers
• Changelog generation — protocol for assembling CHANGELOG-next.md between stable releases