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-# Maintainers
+## Overview
 
-| Maintainer               | GitHub ID                                         | Affiliation |
-| ------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------- | ----------- |
-| Heather Halter           | [hdhalter](https://github.com/hdhalter)           | Amazon      |
-| Nate Archer              | [Naarcha-AWS](https://github.com/Naarcha-AWS)     | Amazon      |
+This document contains a list of maintainers in this repo. See [opensearch-project/.github/RESPONSIBILITIES.md](https://github.com/opensearch-project/.github/blob/main/RESPONSIBILITIES.md#maintainer-responsibilities) that explains what the role of maintainer means, what maintainers do in this and other repos, and how they should be doing it. If you're interested in contributing, and becoming a maintainer, see [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md).
 
-[This document](https://github.com/opensearch-project/.github/blob/main/MAINTAINERS.md) explains what maintainers do in this repo, and how they should be doing it. If you're interested in contributing, see [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md).
+## Current Maintainers
+
+| Maintainer     | GitHub ID                                     | Affiliation |
+| -------------- | --------------------------------------------- | ----------- |
+| Heather Halter | [hdhalter](https://github.com/hdhalter)       | Amazon      |
+| Nate Archer    | [Naarcha-AWS](https://github.com/Naarcha-AWS) | Amazon      |