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 - **Quarterly activity criteria**: Around 50 meaningful maintainer contributions per quarter to Primary Homebrew repositories to remain in good standing as a Maintainer.
   Lead Maintainers have mandatory numerical requirements, defined below.
 - **Quarter**: A Homebrew reporting quarter, defined as one of the following periods: December–February, March–May, June–August, or September–November.
-  Monthly reporting covers the Maintainers listed in Homebrew/brew's README at the end of the month.
-  Contribution counts cover that month; the `maintainer met` and `lead met` columns assess the latest completed quarter.
+  Monthly reports cover contributions for the preceding month from the Maintainers listed in Homebrew/brew's README at the end of that month.
+  The `maintainer met` and `lead met` columns assess the latest completed quarter.
   The report's `potential new role` column uses up to four full quarters of monthly or historical quarterly reports to apply multi-quarter role requirements.
   Recommendations are omitted when the history required for the relevant activity check is incomplete.
   Its recommendations require review against Maintainer discretion, Security and Ops Team exceptions and non-numerical eligibility criteria before role changes are made.