From c8a23e5a0f749204dda5eb70e011991b894e7419 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: beckermr <becker.mr@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 06:31:38 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] doc: add news item

---
 news/2171-fix-maintainer_exists.rst | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 news/2171-fix-maintainer_exists.rst

diff --git a/news/2171-fix-maintainer_exists.rst b/news/2171-fix-maintainer_exists.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f44239008
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/2171-fix-maintainer_exists.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+**Added:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Changed:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Deprecated:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Removed:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Fixed:**
+
+* Fixed a bug in checking in recipe maintainers exist without a GitHub token
+  where the anonymous API would run out of requests. (#2171)
+
+**Security:**
+
+* <news item>