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+OpenEmbedded-Core and Yocto Project Maintainer Information
+==========================================================
+
+OpenEmbedded and Yocto Project work jointly together to maintain the metadata,
+layers, tools and sub-projects that make up their ecosystems.
+
+The projects operate through collaborative development. This currently takes
+place on mailing lists for many components as the "pull request on github"
+workflow works well for single or small numbers of maintainers but we have
+a large number, all with different specialisms and benefit from the mailing
+list review process. Changes therefore undergo peer review through mailing
+lists in many cases.
+
+This file aims to acknowledge people with specific skills/knowledge/interest
+both to recognise their contributions but also empower them to help lead and
+curate those components. Where we have people with specialist knowledge in
+particular areas, during review patches/feedback from these people in these
+areas would generally carry weight.
+
+This file is maintained in OE-Core but may refer to components that are separate
+to it if that makes sense in the context of maintainership. The README of specific
+layers and components should ultimately be definitive about the patch process and
+maintainership for the component.
+
+Recipe Maintainers
+------------------
+
+See meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
+
+Component/Subsystem Maintainers
+-------------------------------
+
+* Kernel (inc. linux-yocto, perf): Bruce Ashfield
+* Reproducible Builds: Joshua Watt
+* Toaster: David Reyna
+* Hash-Equivalence: Joshua Watt
+* Recipe upgrade infrastructure: Alex Kanavin
+* Toolchain: Khem Raj
+* ptest-runner: Aníbal Limón
+* opkg: Alex Stewart
+
+Maintainers needed
+------------------
+
+* Pseudo
+* Layer Index
+* recipetool
+* QA framework/automated testing
+* error reporting system/web UI
+* wic
+* Patchwork
+* Patchtest
+* Prelink-cross
+* Matchbox
+* Sato
+* devtool
+* eSDK
+* Autobuilder
+
+Layer Maintainers needed
+------------------------
+
+* meta-gplv2 (ideally new strategy but active maintainer welcome)
+
+Shadow maintainers/development needed
+--------------------------------------
+
+* toaster
+* bitbake
+
+