# Core Contributor rights expansion & maintainership: Navin Karkera **URL:** \ **Category:** Core Contributors\ **Created:** [April 29, 2024, 7:10am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/core-contributor-rights-expansion-maintainership-navin-karkera/12869 "2024-04-29T07:10:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![navin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/navin/32/5490_2.png) [@navin](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/navin)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 7:10am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/core-contributor-rights-expansion-maintainership-navin-karkera/12869/1 "2024-04-29T07:10:11Z")
I would like to volunteer to maintain [RecommenderXBlock](https://github.com/openedx/RecommenderXBlock) repository to contribute to the effort of finding maintainers. Thanks for your consideration. **Comment Period: 29 April – 20 May 2024** ---
**Author:** ![Yagnesh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/yagnesh/32/9571_2.png) [@Yagnesh](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/Yagnesh)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 10:08am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/core-contributor-rights-expansion-maintainership-navin-karkera/12869/2 "2024-04-29T10:08:14Z")
+1 vote from me. 🙌 👍 ---
**Author:** ![Felipe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/felipe/32/60_2.png) [@Felipe](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/Felipe)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 3:25pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/core-contributor-rights-expansion-maintainership-navin-karkera/12869/3 "2024-04-29T15:25:28Z")
Thanks @navin, definitely a **yes** vote from me. ---
**Author:** ![braden](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/braden/32/46_2.png) [@braden](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/braden)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 5:18pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/core-contributor-rights-expansion-maintainership-navin-karkera/12869/4 "2024-04-29T17:18:39Z")
+1. Thanks for volunteering! ---
**Author:** ![jill](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/jill/32/3188_2.png) [@jill](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/jill)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 2:47am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/core-contributor-rights-expansion-maintainership-navin-karkera/12869/5 "2024-04-30T02:47:03Z")
👍 from me too. Thank you @navin 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![antoviaque](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/antoviaque/32/32_2.png) [@antoviaque](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/antoviaque)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 12:58pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/core-contributor-rights-expansion-maintainership-navin-karkera/12869/6 "2024-04-30T12:58:04Z")
Same, thanks for taking this on @navin ! 👍 ---
**Author:** ![navin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/navin/32/5490_2.png) [@navin](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/navin)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 9:11am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/core-contributor-rights-expansion-maintainership-navin-karkera/12869/7 "2024-05-24T09:11:24Z")
Thank you everyone! The commenting period is over and we have 5 upvotes with no concerns, so I believe the conditions for approval have been met. ---
**Author:** ![feanil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/feanil/32/37_2.png) [@feanil](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/feanil)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2024, 12:02pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/core-contributor-rights-expansion-maintainership-navin-karkera/12869/8 "2024-06-07T12:02:28Z")
@navin the next step here is to create a new [axim-request](https://github.com/openedx/axim-engineering/issues/new/choose) ticket linking to this ticket to update your access so that you have write access to this repo and then you can go through the [initial maintenance checklist](https://docs.openedx.org/en/latest/developers/how-tos/maintain-a-repo.html) for this repo. ---
**Author:** ![sarina](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/sarina/32/2308_2.png) [@sarina](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/sarina)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2024, 12:19pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/core-contributor-rights-expansion-maintainership-navin-karkera/12869/9 "2024-06-07T12:19:45Z")
For anyone watching, runbooks around joining and leaving the Core Contributor program can be found here: [https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/3359342743/Participant+Administrator+Runbooks](https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/3359342743/Participant+Administrator+Runbooks)