Maintainer Role - RubyGems Blog

Today, we are excited to announce a new type of permission for users to have on gems. Until today, permissions on a gem were simply binary: either you were an owner on a gem, and you could do anything, or you were not an owner, and you could do nothing. In response to user requests, we have added a new option, the maintainer role. What can maintainers do? Like owners, maintainers are able to publish new versions of a gem. Unlike owners, maintainers are not allowed to change gem permissions, which means they cannot add additional owners or maintainers to the gem, and they cannot add trusted publishers to make automated pushes.