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+## The Podman.io Project Community Governance
+
+The Podman.io project, as part of Podman Container Tools, follows the [Podman Project Governance](https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/GOVERNANCE.md)
+except sections found in this document, which override those found in Podman's Governance.
+
+---
+
+# Maintainers File
+
+The definitive source of truth for maintainers of this repository is the local [MAINTAINERS.md](./MAINTAINERS.md) file. The [MAINTAINERS.md](https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/MAINTAINERS.md) file in the main Podman repository is used for project-spanning roles, including Core Maintainer and Community Manager. Some repositories in the project will also have a local OWNERS file, which the CI system uses to map users to roles. Any changes to the OWNERS file must make a corresponding change to the [MAINTAINERS.md](./MAINTAINERS.md) file to ensure that the file remains up to date. Most changes to [MAINTAINERS.md](./MAINTAINERS.md) will require a change to the repository’s OWNERS file (e.g., adding a Reviewer), but some will not (e.g., promoting a Maintainer to a Core Maintainer, which comes with no additional CI-related privileges).
+
+Any Core Maintainers listed in Podman’s [MAINTAINERS.md](https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/MAINTAINERS.md) file should also be added to the list of “approvers” in the local OWNERS file and as a Core Maintainer in the list of “Maintainers” in the local [MAINTAINERS.md](./MAINTAINERS.md) file.
+
+This project, containers/podman.io, does not have a CI and does not require an OWNERS file.
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+# Podman.io
+
+[GOVERNANCE.md](GOVERNANCE.md)
+describes the project's governance and the Project Roles used below.
+
+## Maintainers
+
+| Maintainer        | GitHub ID                                                | Project Roles                    | Affiliation                                  |
+|-------------------|----------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|
+| Brent Baude       | [baude](https://github.com/baude)                        | Core Maintainer                  | [Red Hat](https://github.com/RedHatOfficial) |
+| Nalin Dahyabhai   | [nalind](https://github.com/nalind)                      | Core Maintainer                  | [Red Hat](https://github.com/RedHatOfficial) |
+| Matthew Heon      | [mheon](https://github.com/mheon)                        | Core Maintainer                  | [Red Hat](https://github.com/RedHatOfficial) |
+| Paul Holzinger    | [Luap99](https://github.com/Luap99)                      | Core Maintainer                  | [Red Hat](https://github.com/RedHatOfficial) |
+| Giuseppe Scrivano | [giuseppe](https://github.com/giuseppe)                  | Core Maintainer                  | [Red Hat](https://github.com/RedHatOfficial) |
+| Miloslav Trmač    | [mtrmac](https://github.com/mtrmac)                      | Core Maintainer                  | [Red Hat](https://github.com/RedHatOfficial) |
+| Mohan Boddu       | [mohanboddu](https://github.com/mohanboddu)              | Community Manager                | [Red Hat](https://github.com/RedHatOfficial) |
+| Neil Smith        | [actionmancan](https://github.com/actionmancan)          | Community Manager                | [Red Hat](https://github.com/RedHatOfficial) |
+| Tom Sweeney       | [TomSweeneyRedHat](https://github.com/TomSweeneyRedHat/) | Maintainer and Community Manager | [Red Hat](https://github.com/RedHatOfficial) |
+| Lokesh Mandvekar  | [lsm5](https://github.com/lsm5)                          | Maintainer                       | [Red Hat](https://github.com/RedHatOfficial) |
+| Dan Walsh         | [rhatdan](https://github.com/rhatdan)                    | Maintainer                       | [Red Hat](https://github.com/RedHatOfficial) |
+| Ashley Cui        | [ashley-cui](https://github.com/ashley-cui)              | Reviewer                         | [Red Hat](https://github.com/RedHatOfficial) |
+
+## Alumni
+
+None at present
+
+## Credits
+
+The structure of this document was based off of the equivalent one in the [CRI-O Project](https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o/blob/main/MAINTAINERS.md).
+
+## Note
+
+If there is a discrepancy between the [MAINTAINERS.md](https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/MAINTAINERS.md) file in the main Podman repository and this file regarding Core Maintainers or Community Managers, the file in the Podman Repository is considered the source of truth.