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@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ vote of the maintainers.
 
 ### Becoming A Maintainer
 
-Anyone can become a Kanister maintainer. Maintainers should be extremely
+Anyone can become a Kanister maintainer. [Maintainers](MAINTAINERS.md) should be extremely
 proficient in Go; have relevant domain expertise; have the time and ability to
 meet the maintainer expectations outlined above, and demonstrate the ability to
 work with the existing maintainers and project process.