From 8f438e0b8eb00d9293c20d6603b8fdc8abec14b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shubham Pampattiwar Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2026 06:59:40 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Document maintainer contact info and shared responsibility (#10568) Add the maintainer information required by the CNCF Incubation criteria: - State that all maintainers share collective responsibility for the entire project, consistent with CODEOWNERS assigning ownership to the maintainer group as a whole (no siloed per-area owners). - Add a Contacting the maintainers section listing GitHub, Slack, the mailing list, and the security disclosure process. This makes MAINTAINERS.md cover names, contact information, domain of responsibility, and affiliation as required for the Incubation application. Signed-off-by: Shubham Pampattiwar --- MAINTAINERS.md | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS.md b/MAINTAINERS.md index f5e43afa5..e023c15ee 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS.md +++ b/MAINTAINERS.md @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ ## 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. + | Maintainer | GitHub ID | Affiliation | |---------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------| | Scott Seago | [sseago](https://github.com/sseago) | [OpenShift](https://github.com/openshift) | @@ -15,6 +17,13 @@ | 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))