Add automation that lets track maintainers add new maintainers to their track

[kytrinyx]

There are several options here

• an app that
  • uses oauth to verify the user
  • uses the API to verify that they are members of the team that maintains the repo
  • lets them add a maintainer (via GitHub username)
  • adds that person to the maintainer team (and the org)
• a config file that
  • when merged to master makes syncs the team based on the names in the list

The second option is simpler and doesn't require a UI. The maintainers are already the ones who merge stuff.

This also lets us normalize on a label that could be used for this... and we can search on that label for news purposes.

[kytrinyx]

I've started working on this over in https://github.com/kytrinyx/maintainer-sync

[kytrinyx]

This bot might actually be very close to done. I got to the part that would actually update the teams and got stuck because the GitHub API wouldn't let the App access the memberships endpoints. I have fixed the GitHub API to allow this endpoint to be accessed by bots... but basically got sidetracked and never came back to it.

[kytrinyx]

Closing as we've deployed the maintainer-sync bot.