OSS Maintainer Copilot

A small, open-source maintainer automation toolkit for GitHub projects. It helps maintainers audit repository health, triage issue exports, and draft release notes without locking the project into a paid service.

Status: early-stage public project scaffold. Do not claim stars, downloads, or ecosystem adoption until the repository has real usage.

Why this exists

Open-source maintainers spend a lot of time on repeatable project work: issue triage, pull request review preparation, release note drafting, and repository hygiene. OSS Maintainer Copilot provides a lightweight CLI and GitHub Action pattern that can grow into a Codex-assisted workflow for those tasks.

Features

• audit: check whether a repository has common maintainer files and workflows.
• triage: convert a GitHub issues JSON export into a Markdown triage report with suggested labels and priorities.
• release-notes: draft release notes from a simple changelog or merged PR list.
• application-blurb: generate a short, honest 500-character program-application blurb.
• GitHub Action template for scheduled maintainer audits.

Install

python -m pip install .

Usage

Run a repository health audit:

oss-maintainer-copilot audit --repo .

Triage exported issues:

oss-maintainer-copilot triage --input examples/issues.json --output triage-report.md

Generate release notes:

oss-maintainer-copilot release-notes --input CHANGELOG.md --output RELEASE_NOTES.md

Generate a concise application blurb:

oss-maintainer-copilot application-blurb \
  --role "primary maintainer" \
  --ecosystem "maintainer automation for small OSS projects" \
  --usage "new project; seeking early contributors and pilot repos"

Codex/API credit plan

API credits would be used for optional maintainer workflows:

1. Summarizing large PRs before human review.
2. Suggesting labels and priority for new issues.
3. Drafting release notes from merged pull requests.
4. Producing security-focused review checklists for maintainers.

Human maintainers remain responsible for final decisions.

Repository readiness checklist

• MIT license
• Code of Conduct
• Contributing guide
• Security policy
• Governance and maintainer files
• Issue templates
• Pull request template
• CI workflow
• Basic tests

Roadmap

See ROADMAP.md.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. Start with CONTRIBUTING.md, then open an issue or pull request.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.