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+# Helm Maintainers
+
+This document explains the leadership structure of the Kubernetes Helm project, and list the current project maintainers.
+
+The Helm project welcomes contributions from any interested parties. This document explains the role of what we call "Core Maintainers". Core Maintainers play the special role of curating the project.
+
+## What is a Core Maintainer?
+
+(Unabashedly stolen from the [Docker](https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/master/MAINTAINERS) project)
+
+There are different types of maintainers, with different responsibilities, but
+all maintainers have 3 things in common:
+
+1. They share responsibility in the project's success.
+2. They have made a long-term, recurring time investment to improve the project.
+3. They spend that time doing whatever needs to be done, not necessarily what
+is the most interesting or fun.
+
+## Helm Core Maintainers
+
+The duties of a core maintainer include:
+
+* Classify and respond to GitHub issues and review pull requests
+* Perform code reviews (see below)
+* Shape the Helm roadmap and lead efforts to accomplish roadmap milestones
+* Participate actively in feature development and bug fixing
+* Answer questions and help users
+
+The current core maintainers of Helm (in alphabetical order):
+
+* Ville Aikas - [@vaikas-google](https://github.com/vaikas-google)
+* Matt Butcher - [@technosophos](https://github.com/technosophos)
+* Jack Greenfield - [@jackgr](https://github.com/jackgr)
+* Brendan Melville - [@bmelville](https://github.com/bmelville)
+* Michelle Noorali - [@michelleN](https://github.com/michelleN)
+* Adam Reese - [@adamreese](https://github.com/adamreese)
+
+### Code Reviews
+
+Before being merged, every pull request must have at least one LGTM
+from a core maintainer.