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.

• 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