[MikeMcQuaid]

• Count others' merges, verified approvals and separate issue closures only in maintainer reports, using repository-specific approval rules.
• Exclude authorship, self-merges and duplicate PR or issue credit.
• Emit only relevant activity columns in maintainer reports while retaining broader contribution columns in non-maintainer mode.
• Set quarterly thresholds to 40 overall and 20 in two repositories.
• Record Maintainer exemptions without waiving Lead requirements.
• Verify non-self merges in cached batches until activity is known.
• Cache unavailable PRs without blocking settled activity assessments.
• Keep merger identities independent of contributors' PR commits.
• Resolve known historical usernames for searches and role history.
• Reuse approval history across periods and stop unnecessary API pages.
• Honour secondary rate limits with bounded exponential backoff.
• Reject older report criteria before assessing maintainer roles.

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• Have you followed our Contributing guidelines?
• Have you checked for other open Pull Requests for the same change?
• Have you explained what your changes do? Performance claims (e.g. "this is faster") must include brew benchmark results.
• Have you explained why you'd like these changes included, not just what they do?
• For bug fixes, have you given step-by-step brew commands to reproduce the bug?
• Have you written new tests (excluding integration tests)? Here's an example.
• Have you successfully run brew lgtm (style, typechecking and tests) locally?

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• I did not use AI/LLM to create this PR, or I disclosed the tool/model below and reviewed its output; I did not attribute commits to AI and will answer maintainer questions and review comments myself without AI/LLM.

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• New Features
  • Added a --maintainer-exempt option to exclude specified GitHub usernames from Maintainer inactivity removal. Lead Maintainer activity requirements still apply.
  • Maintainer activity reports now count verified approvals, qualifying pull request merges and issue closures, and can include former GitHub usernames.
• Changes
  • Updated activity thresholds and clarified contribution criteria and reporting requirements. Historical reports using previous criteria must be regenerated.
  • Reports now stop merge and approval checks once activity thresholds are met.
  • Improved handling of GitHub rate limits with automatic retries.

The Maintainer contribution report now counts verified merges, approvals and issue closures. It applies updated activity thresholds, supports Maintainer exemptions and changes report columns. GitHub rate-limit handling now supports secondary-limit retries.

Changes: Maintainer activity reporting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Report options and criteria Library/Homebrew/dev-cmd/contributions.rb, Library/Homebrew/sorbet/rbi/dsl/homebrew/dev_cmd/contributions.rbi	Adds --maintainer-exempt and updates Maintainer activity thresholds and report help.
Merger identity and attribution Library/Homebrew/dev-cmd/contributions.rb, Library/Homebrew/test/dev-cmd/contributions_spec.rb	Tracks merger pull requests from Git history and resolves Maintainer identities and aliases.
Verified activity collection Library/Homebrew/dev-cmd/contributions.rb, Library/Homebrew/utils/github/api.rb, Library/Homebrew/test/dev-cmd/contributions_spec.rb, Library/Homebrew/test/utils/github/api_spec.rb	Checks pull-request authors, approvals and issue closures. Adds rate-limit response handling, retry behaviour and related tests.
Activity assessment and report output Library/Homebrew/dev-cmd/contributions.rb, Library/Homebrew/test/dev-cmd/contributions_spec.rb, docs/Homebrew-Governance.md, docs/Manpage.md, manpages/brew.1, completions/*	Applies Maintainer thresholds and exemptions, updates report columns, rejects older report formats, and updates documentation and completions.

Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review 9a0b1

The Maintainer activity report now counts verified merges, approvals and issue closures against the new thresholds, and handles exemptions and former usernames. No concrete merge-blocking risk remains; a rare edge case where a reopened issue is counted twice across months is a possible follow-up.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly summarises the main change: measuring maintainer activity that helps other contributors. It is concise and relevant to the changeset.
Description check		The description is directly related to the changeset. It explains the maintainer report criteria, thresholds, exemptions, caching, rate limits, historical usernames, and validation work.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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[issyl0]

I appreciate the clarifications!