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+# See syntax guidelines for owners file
+# https://docs.github.com/en/github/creating-cloning-and-archiving-repositories/about-code-owners
+
+# These owners will be the default owners for everything in the repo.
+* @kapilt
+
+# Currently c7n is a mixture of aws and core, this mapping will get
+# much simpler as we extract core.
+
+# Bulk of aws resources
+c7n/resources/* @cloud-custodian/aws
+tests/* @cloud-custodian/aws
+
+# Azure Provider
+tools/c7n_azure @cloud-custodian/azure
+
+# GCP Provider
+tools/c7n_gcp @cloud-custodian/gcp
+
+# Docs
+docs/* @cloud-custodian/aws @cloud-custodian/azure @cloud-custodian/gcp
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+# Maintainers
+
+## Leads
+
+- Kapil Thangavelu @kapilt (@kapilt)
+  project lead (bdfl)
+
+## Aws Provider Maintainers
+
+- Todd Stansell (@tjstansell)
+- John Hillegass (@JohnHillegass)
+- Sonny Shi (@thisishi)
+- David Filliatrault (@FireballDWF)
+- Jamison Roberts (@jtroberts83)
+
+## Gcp Provider Maintainers
+
+- Karol Lassak (@ingwarsw)
+
+## Azure Provider Maintainers
+
+- Stefan Gordon (@stefangordon)
+- Andy Luong (@aluong)
+- Kiril Logachev (@logachev)
+
+# Emeritus
+
+Since the opensource inception of Cloud Custodian in April 2016, 
+we have had numerous maintainers who over the course of years 
+are no longer current contributors, but we still celebrate their
+contributions and they are listed here.
+
+- Kit Ewbank (@ewbankkit)
+- Mandeep Bal (@mandeepbal)
+- Erin Welch (@erwelch)
+- Darcy Laylock (@Sutto)
+
+
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@@ -33,17 +33,8 @@ provider to provide for real time enforcement of policies with builtin
 provisioning. Or it can be run as a simple cron job on a server to
 execute against large existing fleets.
 
-Cloud Custodian was originally developed at CapitalOne (by @kapilt et
-al). Since its inception, Cloud Custodian has grown beyond its original maintainers,
-and now Capital One represents
-one of many contributors to this project. Like many opensource
-projects, development is lead by a community of hundreds of
-contributors and several cloud providers have dedicated teams working
-on Custodian.
-
-"[Engineering the Next Generation of Cloud
-Governance](https://cloudrumblings.io/cloud-adoption-engineering-the-next-generation-of-cloud-governance-21fb1a2eff60)"
-by \@drewfirment
+Cloud Custodian is a CNCF Sandbox project, lead by a community of hundreds
+of contributors.
 
 Features
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