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+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+# Database of contributors to Apache Griffin.
+# Pages such as community.md use this data.
+# Please keep the list in alphabetical order.
+#
+- name: William Guo
+ apacheId: guoyp
+ githubId: guoyuepeng
+ role: PMC
+ org: eBay
+
+- name: Lionel Liu
+ apacheId: lionelliu
+ githubId: bhlx3lyx7
+ org: eBay
+ role: PMC
+
+- name: Eugene Liu
+ apacheId: liujin
+ githubId: toyboxman
+ org: VMWARE
+ role: Committer
+
+# End contributors.yml
