This file lists how the Chef project is maintained. When making changes to the system, this file tells you who needs to review your patch - you need a simple majority of maintainers for the relevant subsystems to provide a 👍 on your pull request. Additionally, you need to not receive a veto from a Lieutenant or the Project Lead.
Check out How Chef is Maintained for details on the process, how to become a maintainer, lieutenant, or the project lead.
Handles the core parts of the Chef DSL, base resource and provider infrastructure, and the Chef applications. Includes anything not covered by another component.
Chef Zero, Knife, Chef Apply and Chef Shell.
The specific components of Chef related to a given platform - including (but not limited to) resources, providers, and the core DSL.