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+# Maintainers
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+* Kai Lüke @pothos
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+See [Governance](https://github.com/flatcar/Flatcar/blob/main/governance.md) for governance, commit, and vote guidelines as well as maintainer responsibilities. Everybody listed in this file is a committer as per governance definition.
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+The contents of this file are synchronized from [Flatcar/MAINTAINERS.md](https://github.com/flatcar/Flatcar/blob/main/MAINTAINERS.md).