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Make Vij Hawoldar a GitLab project maintainer

Chase Southard requested to merge make_vij_hawoldar_a_maintainer into master

Manager Justification

It's hard to specify hard requirements for becoming a maintainer, which is why the documentation consists of flexible guidelines. Reviewers are encouraged to think of their eligibility for maintainership in the terms of "I could be ready at any time to be a maintainer as long as my work as an author and reviewer is consistent with other maintainers".

  • The MRs reviewed by the candidate consistently make it through maintainer review without significant additionally required changes.
  • The MRs authored by the candidate consistently make it through reviewer and maintainer review without significant required changes.

Vij, senior backend engineer, has been a GitLab team member for nearly 3.5 years. In that time, he has consistently contributed high-quality code and code reviews primarily to the GitLab and CustomersDot projects, but other projects as well. His expertise and commitment to technical stewardship are on display through the following:

I think that Vij's contributions and behaviors meet our requirements for GitLab project maintainership.

Before Merging (Manager Tasks)

  • Close any relevant trainee maintainer issues with a comment indicating that this merge request is being created, as (they are no longer required to become a maintainer).
  • Mention the maintainers from the given specialty with the template below.
  • Leave this merge request open for 1 week, to give the maintainers time to provide feedback.
  • Ensure we have at least 2 approvals from existing maintainers.
Template call to action 
SPECIALITY Maintainers, please review this proposal to make TRAINEE maintainer of PROJECT. 

* If you have blocking feedback adhering [to the documentation](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/workflow/code-review/#how-to-become-a-project-maintainer) please share it with me via Slack.
* If you are in agreement please approve or give a 👍 on the MR

After 1 week, if there is no blocking feedback and at least 2 approvals, I will merge this MR.

Once This MR is Merged

  1. Join the #backend_maintainers Slack channel
  2. Ask the maintainers in your group to invite you to any maintainer-specific meeting if one exists.
  3. Let a maintainer add you to @gitlab-org/maintainers/rails-backend
  4. Announce it everywhere
  5. Keep reviewing, start merging 🤘 😎 🤘
Edited by Bojan Marjanovic

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