--- title: Matthew Phillips is taking over as Astro Project Steward description: Matthew Phillips has taken over as Astro Project Steward, succeeding Fred Schott, the framework's co-creator. The steward role, as defined in Astro's... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/matthew-phillips-is-taking-over-as-astro-project-steward-43hselipl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Matthew Phillips is taking over as Astro Project Steward | daily.dev og:description: Matthew Phillips has taken over as Astro Project Steward, succeeding Fred Schott, the framework's co-creator. The steward role, as defined in Astro's... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/matthew-phillips-is-taking-over-as-astro-project-steward-43hselipl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/43hseLIPl.png og:image:alt: Matthew Phillips is taking over as Astro Project Steward og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Matthew Phillips is taking over as Astro Project Steward **[Everything Astro](https://daily.dev/sources/everythingastro)** · [@tffarhad](https://daily.dev/tffarhad) · 1 min read · 20 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Matthew Phillips has taken over as Astro Project Steward, succeeding Fred Schott, the framework's co-creator. The steward role, as defined in Astro's governance documentation, involves setting high-level project direction, managing account and asset access, and acting as a tiebreaker in disputes. The announcement was shared in Astro's official Discord channel. ## Content Just saw this announcement in the Astro's official discord channel. Matthew Phillips is stepping up as project steward, taking over the role from Fred Schott (the co-creator of the Astro framework) For those who don't know what a steward does: in [Astro governance](https://github.com/withastro/.github/blob/main/GOVERNANCE.md), the steward handles high-level project direction, account and asset access, and serves as a tiebreaker when disagreements pop up. Congrats to Matthew.. Curious to see what direction he takes next. ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@agustinbarrientos** · 1 upvotes > Good luck to Matthew, and thanks for explaining what the steward role actually covers ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Why We’re Talking About Stewardship Instead of Rewrites](https://daily.dev/posts/why-we-re-talking-about-stewardship-instead-of-rewrites-evsjschqg) · RUBYLAND · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#astro](https://daily.dev/tags/astro) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/matthew-phillips-is-taking-over-as-astro-project-steward-43hselipl) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/matthew-phillips-is-taking-over-as-astro-project-steward-43hselipl","headline":"Matthew Phillips is taking over as Astro Project Steward","text":"Matthew Phillips has taken over as Astro Project Steward, succeeding Fred Schott, the framework's co-creator. 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