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+## Overview
+
+This document explains who the admins are (see below), what they do in this repo, and how they should be doing it. If you're interested in becoming a maintainer, see [MAINTAINERS](MAINTAINERS.md). If you're interested in contributing, see [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md).
+
+## Current Admins
+
+| Admin | GitHub ID | Affiliation |
+| --------------- | --------- | ----------- |
+| Henri Yandell | [hyandell](https://github.com/hyandell) | Amazon |
+
+## Admin Responsibilities
+
+Admins are [MAINTAINERS](MAINTAINERS.md) and inherit all maintainer responsibilities.
+
+### Security
+
+Prioritize security above-all. You are responsible for safeguarding access and keys to the repository and the repository itself.
+
+Note that this repository is monitored and supported 24/7 by Amazon Security, see [Reporting a Vulnerability](SECURITY.md) for details.
+
+### Promote Maintainers
+
+Exercise good judgement, and invite high quality contributors to be co-maintainers of this repository. Support existing maintainers in electing co-maintainers.
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-# Maintainers
+## Overview
+
+This document explains who the maintainers are (see below), what they 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 |
 | --------------- | --------- | ----------- |
+| Henri Yandell | [hyandell](https://github.com/hyandell) | Amazon |
+| Daniel "dB." Doubrovkine | [dblock](https://github.com/dblock) | Amazon |
+
+## Maintainer Responsibilities
+
+### Code of Conduct
+
+Be an examplary practitioner of the guidelines set forward by the [Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).
+
+### Security
+
+Prioritize security above-all. For example, maintainer's Github keys must be password protected securely and any reported security vulnerabilities are addressed before features or bugs.
+
+Note that this repository is monitored and supported 24/7 by Amazon Security, see [Reporting a Vulnerability](SECURITY.md) for details.
+
+### Review Pull Requests
+
+Review pull requests regularly, comment, suggest, reject, merge and close. Accept only high quality pull-requests. Provide code reviews and guidance on incomming pull requests. Don't let PRs be stale and do your best to be helpful to contributors.
+
+### Triage Open Issues
+
+Review issues regularly and triage by labelling issues. For example, add "help wanted" to good issues for new community members. Request for more information from a submitter if an issue is not clear. Create new labels as needed by the project.
+
+### Maintain Overall Health of the Repo
+
+Keep the main branch at production quality at all times.
+
+### Release Frequently
+
+Make frequent project releases to the community.
+
+### Promote Other Maintainers
+
+Exercise good judgement, and propose high quality contributors to become co-maintainers of this repository. Ask one of the [ADMINS](ADMINS.md) to add maintainers publicly.
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 ## Reporting a Vulnerability
 
-If you discover a potential security issue in this project we ask that you notify AWS/Amazon Security
-via our [vulnerability reporting page](http://aws.amazon.com/security/vulnerability-reporting/) or directly via email to aws-security@amazon.com.
-Please do **not** create a public GitHub issue.
+If you discover a potential security issue in this project we ask that you notify AWS/Amazon Security via our [vulnerability reporting page](http://aws.amazon.com/security/vulnerability-reporting/) or directly via email to aws-security@amazon.com. Please do **not** create a public GitHub issue.
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