Maintainers

Who works on what. The canonical authority for "are you allowed to merge this" is the Neovim governance docs on the project website; this page is a derived snapshot for orientation.

Neovim has no CODEOWNERS file. The maps below are derived from git shortlog and recent activity in the corresponding source paths. Bot accounts (factory-droid[bot], dependabot[bot], github-actions[bot]) are excluded.

Top contributors

By all-time commit count on master (top 15):

Contributor	Commits
zeertzjq	5,687
Justin M. Keyes (justinmk)	2,652
Jan Edmund Lazo	2,399
Christian Clason	1,523
ZyX	1,421
bfredl	1,229
dundargoc	1,131
James McCoy	841
Thiago de Arruda	742
Lewis Russell	654
Luuk van Baal	527
Daniel Hahler	520
Gregory Anders	477
Sean Dewar	470
Marco Hinz	301

By commit count over the last 90 days (top 10):

Contributor	Commits
zeertzjq	423
Justin M. Keyes	160
Luuk van Baal	64
glepnir	61
Sean Dewar	55
Christian Clason	32
Yi Ming	27
bfredl	25
Evgeni Chasnovski	23
Barrett Ruth	18

Subsystem map

Approximate ownership based on recent activity in each path. This is descriptive (who has been touching the code) not prescriptive (who decides). For most subsystems, multiple core maintainers can review.

Subsystem	Path	Recent active contributors
Buffer / memline	src/nvim/buffer*.c, memline.c, memfile.c	zeertzjq, justinmk
Window / rendering	src/nvim/window.c, drawscreen.c, drawline.c	zeertzjq, luukvbaal
Marktree / extmarks	src/nvim/marktree.c, extmark.c, decoration.c	bfredl, luukvbaal
Modes / state	src/nvim/state.c, normal.c, edit.c	zeertzjq, Sean Dewar
Vimscript / eval	src/nvim/eval/	zeertzjq, Jan Edmund Lazo, Sean Dewar
Lua bridge	src/nvim/lua/	bfredl, Lewis Russell
API	src/nvim/api/	bfredl, justinmk, zeertzjq
msgpack-rpc	src/nvim/msgpack_rpc/	bfredl, James McCoy
Event loop / OS	src/nvim/event/, src/nvim/os/	bfredl, dundargoc, Jan Edmund Lazo
TUI	src/nvim/tui/	bfredl, dundargoc
Terminal / vterm	src/nvim/terminal.c, src/nvim/vterm/	bfredl, justinmk
Regex / search	src/nvim/regexp.c, search.c	zeertzjq, Sean Dewar (mostly vim-patches)
Options	src/nvim/options.lua, option.c, optionstr.c	zeertzjq, Lewis Russell
Autocmds	src/nvim/autocmd.c, auevents.lua	justinmk, zeertzjq
LSP	runtime/lua/vim/lsp/	Mathias Fußenegger, Maria José Solano, glepnir
Treesitter	runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/, src/nvim/lua/treesitter.c	Christian Clason, Lewis Russell, vhyrro
Diagnostics	runtime/lua/vim/diagnostic.lua	Gregory Anders
vim.pack	runtime/lua/vim/pack.lua	Evgeni Chasnovski
vim.system / Lua stdlib	runtime/lua/vim/_core/	Lewis Russell, Christian Clason, glepnir
Filetype	runtime/lua/vim/filetype.lua	Gregory Anders, Christian Clason
Tests	test/	many — see git log test/
Build / CI	cmake/, cmake.deps/, .github/workflows/	dundargoc, Jan Edmund Lazo
Documentation	runtime/doc/	Justin M. Keyes, Christian Clason, dundargoc
Vim patches	vim-patch: commits across the tree	zeertzjq, Sean Dewar, Yegappan Lakshmanan

Decision making

The day-to-day "should this PR merge" decisions are made by reviewers with merge access. Architectural calls — UI protocol changes, deprecations, language-level changes — are typically discussed in PR threads or on the matrix chat (#neovim:matrix.org) before action. The maintenance-policy reference is MAINTAIN.md at the repo root.