Maintainers

The repository has no CODEOWNERS file; ownership is mapped from the README and from git log activity. The README lists three current maintainers and the commit history makes the per-area picture clear.

Headline maintainers

From the README:

• sharkdp — David Peter, project creator.
• tmccombs — Thayne McCombs.
• tavianator — Tavian Barnes.

Per-subsystem activity

These tables come from git log --pretty=format:"%aN" -- <path> | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn. Bot accounts have been filtered out.

src/cli.rs

Recent contributors	Last activity
Thayne McCombs (43), David Peter (13), Ami Fischman (3), Alexandru-Constantin Atomei (3), Sivaram Kannan (2)	2026-04-06

src/main.rs

Recent contributors	Last activity
sharkdp / David Peter, Thayne McCombs, Tavian Barnes	2026-04-20

src/walk.rs

Recent contributors	Last activity
sharkdp (57), Thayne McCombs (24), Tavian Barnes (19), Alexandru Macovei (9), Michael Aaron Murphy (6)	2026-03-17

src/exec/

Recent contributors	Last activity
Thayne McCombs (20), sharkdp (17), Michael Aaron Murphy (9), Jonah Caplan (7), fusillicode (6)	recent

src/filter/

Recent contributors	Last activity
Thayne McCombs (12), Alexandru Macovei (5), Shun Sakai (4), sharkdp (2), Nathan Bellows (2)	recent

src/fmt/

Recent contributors	Last activity
Thayne McCombs (2), plus original sharkdp authoring	recent

src/output.rs

Recent contributors	Last activity
sharkdp (17), Thayne McCombs (8), Tavian Barnes (6)	recent

src/hyperlink.rs

Recent contributors	Last activity
Thayne McCombs (4), Ross Smyth (1), Joseph Adams (1)	recent

Reach-out tips

• CLI flag UX or ergonomics — tmccombs. Most of the recent cli.rs and main.rs activity has been theirs.
• Walker, ignore handling, and parallelism — sharkdp (original author), tavianator. Tavian has done a lot of the perf-oriented walker work.
• Exec / format-template engine — tmccombs and sharkdp, with substantive earlier contributions from Michael Aaron Murphy.
• Filters (size, time, owner, file types) — tmccombs and Alexandru Macovei.
• Output, hyperlinks, color handling — tmccombs and sharkdp jointly.
• Releases and packaging — sharkdp historically; the release-checklist.md in doc/ is the canonical handover document.

For all questions, the recommended path is opening a GitHub issue first, as CONTRIBUTING.md requests.