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+MAINTAINERS
+===========
+
+
+Overview
+--------
+
+The following is a list of people known to have interests in
+particular areas or sub-systems of devstack.
+
+It is a rather general guide intended to help seed the initial
+reviewers list of a change.  A +1 on a review from someone identified
+as being a maintainer of its affected area is a very positive flag to
+the core team for the veracity of the change.
+
+The ``devstack-core`` group can still be added to all reviews.
+
+
+Format
+~~~~~~
+
+The format of the file is the name of the maintainer and their
+gerrit-registered email.
+
+
+Maintainers
+-----------
+
+.. contents:: :local:
+
+Fedora/CentOS/RHEL
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+ * Ian Wienand <iwienand@redhat.com>
+
+Xen
+~~~
+
+Cinder
+~~~~~~
+
+Neutron
+~~~~~~~
+
+tempest
+~~~~~~~
+