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+# Maintainers
+
+## Active Maintainers
+
+<!-- Please keep this sorted alphabetically by github -->
+
+| Name                   | Github           | LFID |
+| ---------------------- | ---------------- | ---- |
+| Andrew Whitehead       | andrewwhitehead  |      |
+| Berend Sliedrecht      | blu3beri         |      |
+| Clécio Varjão          | cvarjao          |      |
+| Jason C. Leach         | jleach           |      |
+| Timo Glastra           | TimoGlastra      |      |
+
+
+## Emeritus Maintainers
+
+| Name               | Github            | LFID |
+| ------------------ | ----------------- | ---- |
+
+
+## Becoming a Maintainer
+
+Bifold within the Hyperledger Aries community welcomes contributions.
+
+Contributors may progress to become a maintainer. To become a maintainer the following steps occur, roughly in order.
+
+- 5 **significant** changes have been authored by the proposed maintainer and accepted.
+- The proposed maintainer has the sponsorship of at least one other maintainer.
+  - This sponsoring maintainer will create a PR modifying the list of
+    maintainers.
+  - The proposed maintainer accepts the nomination and expresses a willingness
+    to be a long-term (more than 6 month) maintainer.
+  - This would be a comment in the above PR.
+  - This PR will be communicated in all appropriate communication channels. It
+    should be mentioned in any maintainer/community call. It should also be
+    posted to the appropriate mailing list or chat channels if they exist.
+- Approval by at least 3 current maintainers within two weeks of the proposal or an absolute majority of current maintainers.
+  - These votes will be recorded in the PR modifying the list of maintainers.
+- No veto by another maintainer within two weeks of proposal are recorded.
+  - All vetoes must be accompanied by a public explanation as a comment in the
+    PR for adding this maintainer
+  - The explanation of the veto must be reasonable.
+  - A veto can be retracted, in that case the approval/veto time-frame is reset.
+  - It is bad form to veto, retract, and veto again.
+- The proposed maintainer becomes a maintainer
+  - Either two weeks have passed since the third approval,
+  - Or an absolute majority of maintainers approve.
+  - In either case, no maintainer presents a veto.
+
+## Removing Maintainers
+
+Being a maintainer is not a status symbol or a title to be maintained indefinitely. It will occasionally be necessary and appropriate to move a
+maintainer to emeritus status. This can occur in the following situations:
+
+- Resignation of a maintainer.
+- Violation of the [Hyperledger Code of
+  Conduct](https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/HYP/Hyperledger+Code+of+Conduct) warranting removal.
+- **Inactivity**.
+  - A general measure of inactivity will be no commits or code review comments for one reporting quarter, although this will not be strictly enforced if the maintainer expresses a reasonable intent to continue contributing.
+  - Reasonable exceptions to inactivity will be granted for known long term leave such as parental leave and medical leave.
+- Other unspecified circumstances.
+
+Like adding a maintainer the record and governance process for moving a maintainer to emeritus status is recorded in the github PR making that change.
+
+Returning to active status from emeritus status uses the same steps as adding a new maintainer. Note that the emeritus maintainer already has the 5 required significant changes as there is no contribution time horizon for those.