+#. It is the responsibility of a maintainer to ensure that patches are reviewed and to provide an ``ack`` or
+ ``nack`` of those patches as appropriate.
+
+#. Once a patch has been acked by the relevant maintainer, reviewers may still comment on it for a further
+ two weeks. After that time, the patch should be merged into the relevant git tree for the next release.
+ Additional notes and restrictions:
+
+ * Patches should be acked by a maintainer at least two days before the release merge
+ deadline, in order to make that release.
+ * For patches acked with less than two weeks to go to the merge deadline, all additional
+ comments should be made no later than two days before the merge deadline.
+ * After the appropriate time for additional feedback has passed, if the patch has not yet
+ been merged to the relevant tree by the committer, it should be treated as though it had,
+ in that any additional changes needed to it must be addressed by a follow-on patch, rather
+ than rework of the original.
+ * Trivial patches may be merged sooner than described above at the tree committer's
+ discretion.
+
+DPDK Maintainers
+----------------
+
+The following are the DPDK maintainers as listed in the ``MAINTAINERS`` file
+in the DPDK root directory.
+
+.. literalinclude:: ../../../MAINTAINERS
+ :lines: 3-