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-# Maintainers
+## Overview
 
-| Maintainer               | GitHub ID                                                   | Affiliation |
-| ------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- |
-| Daniel Doubrovkine       | [dblock](https://github.com/dblock)                         | Amazon      |
-| Sarat Vemulapalli        | [saratvemulapalli](https://github.com/saratvemulapalli)     | 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 |
+| ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- |
+| Daniel Doubrovkine | [dblock](https://github.com/dblock)                     | Amazon      |
+| Sarat Vemulapalli  | [saratvemulapalli](https://github.com/saratvemulapalli) | Amazon      |