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-# OpenSearch Maintainers
-
-## Maintainers
-| Maintainer | GitHub ID | Affiliation |
-| --------------- | --------- | ----------- |
-| Abbas Hussain | [abbashus](https://github.com/abbashus) | Amazon |
-| Alolita Sharma | [alolita](https://github.com/alolita) | Amazon |
-| Anirudha Jadhav | [anirudha](https://github.com/anirudha) | Amazon | 
-| Chloe Zhang | [chloe-zh](https://github.com/chloe-zh) | Amazon |
-| Joshua Li | [joshuali925](https://github.com/joshuali925) | Amazon |
-| Zhongnan Su | [zhongnansu](https://github.com/CEHENKLE) | Amazon |
+## Overview
+
+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).
+
+## Current Maintainers
+
+| Maintainer      | GitHub ID                                     | Affiliation |
+| --------------- | --------------------------------------------- | ----------- |
+| Abbas Hussain   | [abbashus](https://github.com/abbashus)       | Amazon      |
+| Alolita Sharma  | [alolita](https://github.com/alolita)         | Amazon      |
+| Anirudha Jadhav | [anirudha](https://github.com/anirudha)       | Amazon      |
+| Chloe Zhang     | [chloe-zh](https://github.com/chloe-zh)       | Amazon      |
+| Joshua Li       | [joshuali925](https://github.com/joshuali925) | Amazon      |
+| Zhongnan Su     | [zhongnansu](https://github.com/CEHENKLE)     | Amazon      |