Merge pull request #261 from twitter/isnotinvain-patch-1

Create COMMITTERS.md

Author: isnotinvain

COMMITTERS.md

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+# Committers
+
+Please see our [Project Governance](https://github.com/twitter/analytics-infra-governance) page for more details.
+
+## Active
+
+| Name                   | Handle                                                    |
+|------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------|
+| Alex Levenson          | [@isnotinvain](https://github.com/isnotinvain)            |
+| Ben Pence              | [@benpence](https://github.com/benpence)                  |
+| Ian O'Connell          | [@ianoc](https://github.com/ianoc)                        |
+| Joe Nievelt            | [@jnievelt](https://github.com/jnievelt)                  |
+| Oscar Boykin           | [@johnynek](https://github.com/johnynek)                  |
+| Pankaj Gupta           | [@pankajroark](https://github.com/pankajroark)            |
+| Piyush Narang          | [@piyushnarang](https://github.com/piyushnarang)          |
+| Ruban Monu             | [@rubanm](https://github.com/rubanm)                      |
+| Sriram Krishnan        | [@sriramkrishnan](https://github.com/sriramkrishnan)      |
+
+##Emeritus

README.md

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 otherwise, subclass `AkkaSerializer` and override `kryoInstantiator` to control how the `Kryo`
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-## Community and Documentation
-
-This, and all [github.com/twitter](https://github.com/twitter) projects, are under the [Twitter Open Source Code of Conduct](https://engineering.twitter.com/opensource/code-of-conduct). Additionally, see the [Typelevel Code of Conduct](http://typelevel.org/conduct) for specific examples of harassing behavior that are not tolerated.
+## Documentation
 
 To learn more and find links to tutorials and information around the web, check out the [Chill Wiki](https://github.com/twitter/chill/wiki).
 
 The latest ScalaDocs are hosted on Chill's [Github Project Page](http://twitter.github.io/chill).
 
+## Contact
+
 Discussion occurs primarily on the [Chill mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/chill-user). Issues should be reported on the [GitHub issue tracker](https://github.com/twitter/chill/issues).
 
+## Get Involved + Code of Conduct
+Pull requests and bug reports are always welcome!
+
+We use a lightweight form of project governence inspired by the one used by Apache projects.
+Please see [Contributing and Committership](https://github.com/twitter/analytics-infra-governance#contributing-and-committership) for our code of conduct and our pull request review process.
+The TL;DR is send us a pull request, iterate on the feedback + discussion, and get a +1 from a [Committer](COMMITTERS.md) in order to get your PR accepted.
+
+The current list of active committers (who can +1 a pull request) can be found here: [Committers](COMMITTERS.md)
+
+A list of contributors to the project can be found here: [Contributors](https://github.com/twitter/chill/graphs/contributors)
+
 ## Maven
 
 Chill modules are available on Maven Central. The current groupid and version for all modules is, respectively, `"com.twitter"` and  `0.8.0` and each scala project is published for `2.10` and `2.11`. Search [search.maven.org](http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Cchill) when in doubt.