Maintainers

The official maintainer list lives in MAINTAINERS.md. Roles are: Lead, Approver, and Reviewer, with optional area annotations (docs, cli, ci).

Leads

Name	GitHub	Affiliation
Michael Crenshaw	crenshaw-dev	Intuit
Alexander Matyushentsev	alexmt	Akuity

Approvers

Drawn from MAINTAINERS.md (April 2026 snapshot). Spelling preserved.

Name	GitHub	Affiliation	Areas
Leonardo Luz Almeida	leoluz	Intuit	—
Keith Chong	keithchong	Red Hat	—
Alex Collins	alexec	Intuit	—
Soumya Ghosh Dastidar	gdsoumya	Akuity	—
Jann Fischer	jannfis	Red Hat	—
Dan Garfield	todaywasawesome	Octopus Deploy	docs
Alexandre Gaudreault	agaudreault	Intuit	—
Peter Jiang	pjiang-dev	Intuit	docs
Pasha Kostohrys	pasha-codefresh	Octopus Deploy	—
Nitish Kumar	nitishfy	Akuity	cli, docs
Justin Marquis	34fathombelow	Akuity	docs, ci
Papapetrou Patroklos	ppapapetrou76	Octopus Deploy	docs, cli
Blake Pettersson	blakepettersson	Akuity	—
Ishita Sequeira	ishitasequeira	Red Hat	—
Ashutosh Singh	ashutosh16	Intuit	docs
Jesse Suen	jessesuen	Akuity	—
Ryan Umstead	rumstead	Black Rock	—
Regina Voloshin	reggie-k	Octopus Deploy	—
Jonathan West	jgwest	Red Hat	—

Reviewers

Name	GitHub	Affiliation
Zach Aller	zachaller	Intuit
Chetan Banavikalmutt	chetan-rns	Red Hat
Eugene Doudine	dudinea	Octopus Deploy
Christian Hernandez	christianh814	Akuity
Andrii Korotkov	andrii-korotkov	Verkada
Nicholas Morey	morey-tech	Akuity
Linghao Su	linghaoSu	DaoCloud
Yuan Tang	terrytangyuan	Red Hat
William Tam	wtam2018	Red Hat
Hong Wang	wanghong230	Akuity
Jaewoo Choi	choejwoo	Hyundai-Autoever
Alexy Mantha	alexymantha	GoTo
Kanika Rana	ranakan19	Red Hat
Jonathan Winters	jwinters01	Intuit

CODEOWNERS

CODEOWNERS divides the repo into owner pools:

• Everything — @argoproj/argocd-approvers.
• /docs/**, /USERS.md, /README.md, /mkdocs.yml — adds @argoproj/argocd-approvers-docs.
• CI surfaces (/.github/**, /.codecov.yml, /.goreleaser.yaml, /sonar-project.properties) — adds @argoproj/argocd-approvers-ci.
• CLI (/cmd/argocd/**, /cmd/main.go) — adds @argoproj/argocd-approvers-cli.
• /docs/operator-manual/ — adds both docs and CLI approvers (so CLI changes that only touch docs do not require CLI approval).

The OWNERS and per-directory OWNERS files (e.g., controller/OWNERS, applicationset/OWNERS) extend the same model.

Decision making

Argo CD decisions are made by the maintainers acting as a group, governed by the CNCF code of conduct (referenced from README.md). Major changes are usually preceded by a design proposal in docs/proposals/.

For a more granular view of who has been touching what subsystem recently, run:

git log --since='6 months ago' --pretty=format:'%an' -- <subsystem-path> | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head

That command treats git log as a directory-level "active contributors" map, but always defer to the official maintainer list above for governance and reviews.