# Higress Maintainers

This file lists the current maintainers of the Higress project.

A maintainer is a contributor who is actively responsible for guiding the
direction of the project, reviewing and merging contributions, and
participating in project governance.

For the day-to-day code-review ownership of individual subdirectories,
see [`CODEOWNERS`](./CODEOWNERS).

## Maintainers

| Name           | GitHub                                                  | Affiliation       |
| -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------- |
| Yiquan Dong    | [@CH3CHO](https://github.com/CH3CHO)                    | Trip.com          |
| Yuanxiao Zhao  | [@EndlessSeeker](https://github.com/EndlessSeeker)      | Alibaba Cloud     |
| Leilei Geng    | [@gengleilei](https://github.com/gengleilei)            | Alibaba Cloud     |
| Xiantao Han    | [@hanxiantao](https://github.com/hanxiantao)            | XinYe Technology  |
| Zhiwei Cheng   | [@cr7258](https://github.com/cr7258)                    | NVIDIA            |
| Tianyi Zhang   | [@johnlanni](https://github.com/johnlanni)              | Alibaba Cloud     |
| Jingfeng Xu    | [@lexburner](https://github.com/lexburner)              | Alibaba Cloud     |

## Becoming a maintainer

Higress follows the contribution and graduation paths described in
[`CONTRIBUTING_EN.md`](./CONTRIBUTING_EN.md). Active and sustained
contributors who consistently demonstrate good technical judgement and
community stewardship can be nominated as maintainers by an existing
maintainer; nominations are accepted by lazy consensus among the current
maintainers.

## Reporting issues

* For security issues, please follow [`SECURITY.md`](./SECURITY.md).
* For all other questions, please use
  [GitHub Issues](https://github.com/higress-group/higress/issues) or our
  community channels listed in the [README](./README.md).