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 Maintainers of this repository with their focus areas:
 
-* Björn Rabenstein <beorn@soundcloud.com> @beorn7: Local storage; general code-level issues.
 * Brian Brazil <brian.brazil@robustperception.io> @brian-brazil: Console templates; semantics of PromQL, service discovery, and relabeling.
 * Fabian Reinartz <fabian.reinartz@coreos.com> @fabxc: PromQL parsing and evaluation; implementation of retrieval, alert notification, and service discovery.
 * Julius Volz <julius.volz@gmail.com> @juliusv: Remote storage integrations; web UI.