Organisation

Core developers

Core developers have special privileges and responsibilities compared to other contributors:

Can vote for and against merging pull requests (Two for-votes are required for code to be mergeable upstream.)
Has write access to the minetest team's repositories on github

Core developers are assigned and unassigned by celeron55, based on these rules:

Only people who have already contributed to the project can be assigned to be core developers.
The person themselves or anyone else can propose someone to become or stop being a core developer. Do this by "/msg celeron55 blah blah".
If a core developer is doing almost nothing but blocking everything that comes their way, they will be unassigned. (celeron55 will accept complaints and will ultimately decide.)
Core developers, like other contributors, should document and publish their work in a way that allows another contributor to pick up on it if the core developer stops working on the project due to any reason.

2015-11-02: The subsystem maintainer method was officially taken out of use. See the history of this page for details about how it worked.