Maintainers

ripgrep is, in practice, maintained by a single person.

CODEOWNERS

The repository has no CODEOWNERS file. All ownership is implicit: the repository owner is Andrew Gallant (BurntSushi), who reviews and merges every change.

Subsystem ownership (derived from git history)

Authors are listed by recency on origin/master. Numbers in parentheses are commits across the lifetime of the repository.

Subsystem	Lifetime contributors (top 3)	Last activity
crates/core (the rg binary)	Andrew Gallant (most), dana, Lucas Trzesniewski	Active
crates/core/flags/defs.rs (CLI flag table)	Andrew Gallant	Active
crates/grep (facade)	Andrew Gallant	Touched once or twice per release
crates/matcher	Andrew Gallant	Stable; rare changes
crates/regex	Andrew Gallant	Active (literal extraction is bug-prone)
crates/pcre2	Andrew Gallant	Stable; binding-shaped
crates/searcher	Andrew Gallant	Active core code
crates/printer	Andrew Gallant	Active (output options expand each release)
crates/cli	Andrew Gallant, dana	Stable, occasional decompression additions
crates/ignore	Andrew Gallant, dana	Active (gitignore is the bug-magnet of the project)
crates/globset	Andrew Gallant	Active (glob syntax extensions in 15.0.0)
tests/	Andrew Gallant, dana, many drive-by contributors	Active
.github/workflows/	Andrew Gallant, occasional drive-by	Updated as toolchains shift
pkg/brew (Homebrew)	Andrew Gallant, occasional contributor	Stable

Recent contributors (since 2024-09)

Contributor	Recent commits
Andrew Gallant	116
Lucas Trzesniewski	3
Thayne McCombs	2
Pierre Rouleau	2
ChristopherYoung	2

The 116 vs. 3 gap is consistent with the lifetime distribution: Andrew Gallant has authored 1,534 of the 2,209 commits (~69%). Almost all other contributors made one to three commits each.

How to reach the maintainer

• GitHub issues for bug reports, feature requests, and questions about behaviour. Andrew is responsive.
• Security disclosures: see README.md's "Vulnerability reporting" section. PGP-signed email to the address listed on Andrew's blog.

Areas where outside contributions are welcomed

The CHANGELOG history shows these areas receive most outside contribution:

• File-type additions: a one-line entry in crates/ignore/src/default_types.rs plus a short test. ~5–10 of these per release.
• Shell completion improvements: crates/core/flags/complete/{bash,zsh,fish,powershell}.rs.
• Documentation polish: README, GUIDE, FAQ, doc strings on flags.
• Platform-specific build/CI fixes: .github/workflows/.

Areas where outside contribution is rare and tends to be invitational:

• The Matcher trait or Searcher core loop.
• The Flag registry's design.
• The ignore crate's precedence rules.

When in doubt, file an issue first.