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 ## Maintainers
 
+All maintainers share collective responsibility for the entire Velero project. There are no siloed, per-area owners: every maintainer is a final reviewer of pull requests across the codebase, and code ownership is assigned to the maintainer group as a whole (see [CODEOWNERS](https://github.com/velero-io/velero/blob/main/CODEOWNERS)). Maintainers review PRs, ensure code quality, triage issues, fix bugs, and perform release and maintenance tasks across all components.
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 | Maintainer          | GitHub ID                                                     | Affiliation                                      |
 |---------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------|
 | Scott Seago         | [sseago](https://github.com/sseago)                           | [OpenShift](https://github.com/openshift)        |
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 | Anshul Ahuja        | [anshulahuja98](https://github.com/anshulahuja98)             | [Microsoft Azure](https://www.github.com/azure/) |
 | Tiger Kaovilai      | [kaovilai](https://github.com/kaovilai)                       | [OpenShift](https://github.com/openshift)        |
 
+## Contacting the maintainers
+
+* **GitHub:** open an issue or pull request in the relevant [velero-io](https://github.com/velero-io) repository, or @mention a maintainer by their GitHub ID.
+* **Slack:** [#velero](https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/velero) on the Kubernetes Slack.
+* **Mailing list:** [Velero Google Group](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/projectvelero).
+* **Security issues:** follow the private disclosure process in [SECURITY.md](https://github.com/velero-io/.github/blob/main/SECURITY.md) (cncf-velero-security@lists.cncf.io). Do not report vulnerabilities through public channels.
+
 ## Emeritus Maintainers
 * Adnan Abdulhussein ([prydonius](https://github.com/prydonius))
 * Andy Goldstein ([ncdc](https://github.com/ncdc))