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last_review_date: "2025-11-26"
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# Homebrew Leadership Responsibilities

## Project Leader sole responsibilities

- manage all day-to-day technical decisions
- resolve disputes related to the operation of Homebrew between maintainers, other contributors, and users
- [product management](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_management) for the various Homebrew products
- each quarter: checking for activity of maintainers and asking them to step down if they have not been active enough in the past quarters
- organising the AGM (with delegation of tasks to other maintainers)

## Lead Maintainers' sole responsibilities

- decide on technical disputes between Homebrew maintainers and the Project Leader

## Project Leader and Lead Maintainers' shared responsibilities

- blocking abusive GitHub users
- approving Open Collective expenses that are expected or have already been agreed upon by the Lead Maintainers (e.g. Homebrew cloud usage on a personal credit card) (only one approval needed)
- voting on approving new Homebrew maintainers
- voting on maintainer hardware grants (before they are purchased)
- voting on maintainer hackathon/conference/AGM travel expenses (before they are booked)
- responding to and handling Code of Conduct complaints