I wasn't able to find another medium upon which to reach out to your team so I hope this is sufficient. First off I'd like to express my appreciation along with the gratitude from the React-Bootstrap team for your efforts to enhance our accessibility and public API.
Per our team's model for maintenance we have expressed that when we see devoted individuals continually providing support we will extend an invitation to join the organization. Though your team's case is particularly interesting since we are seeing a devoted team helping out.
Before we started reaching out to individual members of your team to see if they'd like to join we thought it may be more beneficial to first reach out to your team as a whole and ask if you have one to three members that you feel would be the best fit.
With that said the two teams are slightly different in the way that we approach things, and our focus is different from one another. At the same time we don't want to see that we are preventing you from moving forward. We are open to new tools or governance that will aid in the development lifecycle of our packages, so if there's something that you wish to change just open an issue and we can discuss it as a team. We follow a majority rule governance, and silence is usually perceived as acceptance given a reasonable period of time to allow all interested parties to respond.
Our initial process for adding collaborators is first to permit new members to review and accept pull requests. Then after we see that things are working well we have traditionally given push access to npm primarily for those that show senior level traits. We haven't documented this quasi promotion system, but it has been what we've done so far.
Please take a moment to review our Contributing and Maintaining documentation and let us know if this works for you, or if you are interested. It is our sincere hope that our two teams can work together to build rich reusable components.
On a side note it may make sense in some cases to breakout a new library similar to what we are doing with the react-overlays and react-prop-types projects. If something like this is identified we are open to discussion about it.
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react-bootstrap team:
@aabenoja @AlexKVal @dozoisch @joemcbride @jquense @mathieumg @mfunkie @taion
pivotal team we've seen:
@atomanyih @ctaymor @gpleiss @kennyw12 @matt-royal @nicw @stubbornella