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-# Format is:
-# <preferred e-mail> <other e-mail 1>
-# <preferred e-mail> <other e-mail 2>
-Bryan Havenstein <bryan.havenstein@ericsson.com>
-David Charles Kennedy <dkennedy@hp.com>
-Dmitri Zimine <dz@stackstorm.com>
-Lakshmi Kannan <lakshmi@stackstorm.com> <lakshmi+github@lakshmikannan.me>
-Lingxian Kong <konglingxian@huawei.com>
-Lingxian Kong <konglingxian@huawei.com> <anlin.kong@gmail.com>
-Liu Sheng <liusheng@huawei.com>
-Manas Kelshikar <manas@stackstorm.com>
-Noa Koffman <noa.koffman@alcatel-lucent.com>
-Renat Akhmerov <rakhmerov@mirantis.com>
-Rico Lin <rico.lin.guanyu@gmail.com>
-Timur Nurlygayanov <tnurlygayanov@mirantis.com>
-Venkata Mahesh Kotha <venkatamaheshkotha@gmail.com>
-Winson Chan <wcchan@stackstorm.com> <m4d.coder@gmail.com>
-Winson Chan <wcchan@stackstorm.com> <wcchan@stackstorm.com>
-Zhu Rong <zhu.rong@99cloud.net>
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-Anastasia Kuznetsova <akuznetsova@mirantis.com>
-Christian Berendt <berendt@b1-systems.de>
-Gal Margalit <gal.margalit@alcatel-lucent.com>
-Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org>
-Kirill Izotov <enykeev@stackstorm.com>
-Liat Fried <liat.fried@alcatel-lucent.com>
-Nikolay Mahotkin <nmakhotkin@mirantis.com>
-Renat Akhmerov <rakhmerov@mirantis.com>
-Rinat Sabitov <rinat.sabitov@gmail.com>
-Zhenguo Niu <niuzhenguo@huawei.com>