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 # Maintainers
 
-See [Governance](https://github.com/flatcar/Flatcar/blob/main/governance.md) for governance, commit, and vote guidelines as well as maintainer responsibilities. Everybody listed in this file is a committer as per governance definition.
+See [Governance](https://github.com/flatcar/Flatcar/blob/main/governance.md) for governance, commit, and vote guidelines as well as maintainer responsibilities. Everybody listed in this file is a maintainer as per governance definition.
 
 
 ## Repositories