Maintainers

CockroachDB is maintained by a roster of teams at Cockroach Labs and a long tail of external contributors. The canonical mapping from path → team lives in .github/CODEOWNERS (~640 lines); team metadata lives in TEAMS.yaml.

Team roster (from TEAMS.yaml)

Team	Label	Primary remit
cockroachdb/sql-foundations	T-sql-foundations	SQL catalog, descriptors, builtins, schema bootstrap
cockroachdb/sql-queries	T-sql-queries	SQL parser, optimizer, distSQL, vectorized execution
cockroachdb/kv	T-kv	KV client/server, replicas, leases, allocator
cockroachdb/admission-control	T-kv,A-admission-control	Admission engine, flow control
cockroachdb/storage	T-storage	Pebble integration, MVCC, on-disk format
cockroachdb/server	T-db-server	Server lifecycle, CLI, multi-tenant orchestration
cockroachdb/sqlproxy-prs	T-cloud-platform	SQL proxy for Serverless
cockroachdb/cdc	T-cdc	Changefeeds, rangefeed, kafka sinks
cockroachdb/disaster-recovery	T-disaster-recovery	BACKUP, RESTORE, IMPORT, PCR/LDR
cockroachdb/jobs	T-jobs	Jobs framework, scheduler
cockroachdb/migrations	T-migrations	Cluster-version migrations
cockroachdb/multiregion	T-multiregion	Multi-region SQL
cockroachdb/spatial	T-spatial	Geometry / geography types and indexes
cockroachdb/obs-prs	T-observability	DB Console backend, statement stats, metrics
cockroachdb/security-engineering	T-security-engineering	Authentication, authorization, TLS, FIPS
cockroachdb/product-security	T-product-security	Security review, SBOM, supply chain
cockroachdb/dev-inf	T-dev-inf	Bazel, CI, dev tool, generated code
cockroachdb/test-eng	T-testeng	Roachtest, lint, flaky-test triage
cockroachdb/release-eng	T-release	Releases, package builds, pkg/cmd/release
cockroachdb/code-systems-prs	T-code-sys	.trunk/ and shared code-platform configs
cockroachdb/drp-eng	T-drpeng	Disaster recovery platform engineering
cockroachdb/field-engineering	T-field-eng	Field engineering helpers
cockroachdb/docs	—	Public docs
cockroachdb/cloud-identity	—	OIDC, identity integrations
cockroachdb/unowned	—	Files with no canonical owner (used sparingly)

Subsystem ownership map

The full map is in .github/CODEOWNERS; the table below summarizes the major paths for orientation.

Path	Primary team
pkg/sql/ (default)	sql-queries
pkg/sql/catalog/	sql-foundations
pkg/sql/opt/, pkg/sql/sem/, pkg/sql/parser/	sql-queries
pkg/sql/schemachanger/	sql-foundations
pkg/sql/sqlstats/, pkg/sql/contention/, pkg/sql/scheduledlogging/	obs-prs
pkg/sql/sqlliveness/, pkg/sql/sqlinstance/	server
pkg/sql/vecindex/	sql-queries
pkg/kv/	kv
pkg/kv/kvserver/	kv
pkg/kv/kvserver/kvflowcontrol/, pkg/util/admission/	admission-control
pkg/raft/	kv
pkg/storage/	storage
pkg/server/, pkg/cli/	server
pkg/rpc/	server
pkg/security/, pkg/security/securityassets/, pkg/security/jwtauth/	security-engineering
pkg/ccl/sqlproxyccl/	sqlproxy-prs
pkg/ccl/changefeedccl/, pkg/kv/kvclient/rangefeed/, pkg/kv/kvserver/rangefeed/	cdc
pkg/backup/, pkg/cloud/, pkg/ccl/backupccl/	disaster-recovery
pkg/crosscluster/, pkg/ccl/streamingccl/	disaster-recovery
pkg/jobs/, pkg/upgrade/	jobs, migrations
pkg/clusterversion/, pkg/upgrade/upgrades/	migrations
pkg/multitenant/, pkg/sql/instancestorage/	server
pkg/spanconfig/	kv
pkg/geo/	spatial
pkg/cmd/roachtest/, pkg/cmd/roachprod/	test-eng
pkg/cmd/release/, pkg/cmd/publish-artifacts/	release-eng
pkg/cmd/dev/, build/, BUILD.bazel, WORKSPACE	dev-inf
.github/, .trunk/	dev-inf, code-systems-prs
docs/RFCS/	rfc-prs (the design-review squad)

How to contact a team

• File an issue and @cockroachdb/<team> to get triage attention.
• For PRs, GitHub auto-assigns the right reviewers via CODEOWNERS unless the line is prefixed #! (silent ownership).

See also

• .github/CODEOWNERS for fine-grained ownership.
• TEAMS.yaml for the alias-to-team map.
• pkg/cmd/whoownsit/ for a CLI to check who owns a path.
• pkg/cmd/testowner/ for the test-to-team mapping used by CI.