Maintainers

The repository has no CODEOWNERS file. Ownership is informal: the original author and a small group of long-time committers do most of the human review.

Recent human committers

Excludes bot accounts (github-actions[bot], dependabot[bot], pre-commit-ci[bot]). Counts taken from the most recent 200 commits on master (April 2026):

Rank	Author	Recent commits
1	Sebastián Ramírez (tiangolo)	41
2	Motov Yurii	11
3	Sofie Van Landeghem	5
4	Alejandra	3
5	Ahsan Sheraz	1
5	Kadir Can Ozden	1
5	Savannah Ostrowski	1

The contributor pages at https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/fastapi-people/ are auto-generated from GitHub data by scripts/people.py (see Tooling) and refreshed by the people.yml workflow.

Active subsystem coverage (best effort)

Without a CODEOWNERS file, this is a coarse mapping derived from git log on each subsystem's directory. Most subsystems share the same set of recent committers:

Subsystem	Source	Recent contributors (most active in the last ~90 days)
Application core	fastapi/applications.py	tiangolo, plus occasional deep edits from long-time contributors
Routing	fastapi/routing.py	tiangolo, Motov Yurii
Dependency injection	fastapi/dependencies/	tiangolo, Sofie Van Landeghem
OpenAPI	fastapi/openapi/	tiangolo
Security	fastapi/security/	tiangolo
Pydantic compat	fastapi/_compat/	tiangolo
SSE	fastapi/sse.py	tiangolo (recent addition)
Docs site	docs/, scripts/docs.py, scripts/people.py, scripts/translate.py	tiangolo, Alejandra, plus translation reviewers per language
Translation tooling	scripts/translate.py, scripts/notify_translations.py	tiangolo, contributors
CI workflows	.github/workflows/	tiangolo

The same name appears in nearly every row because the project was founded as a solo effort and the author still does most of the framework-internal work. Translation, docs, and contributor-people pipelines have broader contributor bases, surfaced through the fastapi-people pages.

How decisions get made

• PRs to the framework code merge after review by tiangolo or one of the maintainer-equivalent committers (visible on the contributor pages on the site).
• Translation PRs are reviewed by language-specific translators tracked in the notify-translations.yml issue threads.
• Dependabot PRs are auto-merged when CI passes (label-driven via label-approved.yml).
• Release notes are appended automatically by latest-changes.yml. Tags are cut by tiangolo.

For everyday questions about a specific subsystem, the GitHub issue tracker and the fastapi-people page are more reliable signals than this static table.