Probably yes. However, since ros_comm is the most important repo of ROS1, I hope that there’s a vetting process for new maintainers; like, potential new maintainers should first help answering issues, reproducing and testing PRs etc. without maintainer status (as described in the issue mentioned above). Once they’ve demonstrated that they are diligent and know what they are doing, they could get direct push access to the repo.
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