diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
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+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+The following people, in alphabetical order, have either authored or signed
+off on commits in the Cilium repository:
+
+lou-lan                                 loulan@loulan.me
+weizhou.lan@daocloud.io                 weizhou.lan@daocloud.io
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diff --git a/CODEOWNERS b/CODEOWNERS
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--- a/CODEOWNERS
+++ b/CODEOWNERS
@@ -19,4 +19,5 @@
 /Makefile* @weizhoublue
 /README.md @weizhoublue
 /go.sum @weizhoublue
-/VERSION @lou-lan
+/VERSION @weizhoublue
+/AUTHORS @weizhoublue