diff --git a/GOVERNANCE.md b/GOVERNANCE.md
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--- a/GOVERNANCE.md
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@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@
 
 The Valkey project is managed by a Technical Steering Committee (TSC) composed of the maintainers of the Valkey repository.
 The Valkey project includes all of the current and future repositories under the Valkey-io organization.
-Maintainers are defined as individuals with full commit access to a repository, which shall be in sync with the MAINTAINERS.md file in a given projects repository.
+Committers are defined as individuals with write access to the code within a repository.
+Maintainers are defined as individuals with full access to a repository and own its governance.
+Both maintainers and committers should be clearly listed in the MAINTAINERS.md file in a given projects repository.
 Maintainers of other repositories within the Valkey project are not members of the TSC unless explicitly added.
 
 ## Technical Steering Committee
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS.md b/MAINTAINERS.md
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@@ -16,8 +16,16 @@ Maintainers listed in alphabetical order by their github ID.
 | Zhao Zhao           | [soloestoy](https://github.com/soloestoy)       | Alibaba     |
 | Viktor Söderqvist   | [zuiderkwast](https://github.com/zuiderkwast)   | Ericsson    |
 
+## Current Committers
 
-### Former Maintainers
+Committers listed in alphabetical order by their github ID.
+
+| Committer           | GitHub ID                                       | Affiliation |
+| ------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- | ----------- |
+| Harkrishn Patro     | [hpatro](https://github.com/hpatro)             | Amazon      |
+| Ran Shidlansik      | [ranshid](https://github.com/ranshid)           | Amazon      |
+
+### Former Maintainers and Committers 
 
 | Maintainer          | GitHub ID                                       | Affiliation |
 | ------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- | ----------- |
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