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Expand Up @@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ Plugin ownership is a responsibility often taken on voluntarily and/or in additi

Plugin owners are assumed to have full autonomy over reviewing and merging PRs for their workspace. This includes the merging of Version Packages PRs to trigger a new release.

It is also helpful for workspace owners to review and add approvals to PRs that touch multiple workspaces (such as dependency updates), as these may be landed by `@backstage/community-plugin-maintainers`.
It is also helpful for workspace owners to review and add approvals to PRs that touch multiple workspaces, as these may be landed by `@backstage/community-plugin-maintainers`.

In the case of PRs for dependency updates, if these are not handled and become stale, `@backstage/community-plugin-maintainers` will take action to merge or close them.

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