diff --git a/RELEASE_TESTERS.TXT b/RELEASE_TESTERS.TXT
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..eeba67538384
--- /dev/null
+++ b/RELEASE_TESTERS.TXT
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+This file is a list of the people responsible for ensuring that targets and
+environments get tested and validated during the release process.
+
+They will also, in conjunction with the release manager and the code owners,
+accept patches into stable release branches, tag critical bugs and release
+stoppers as well as make sure that no regressions were observed on their
+targets since the last release.
+
+N: Ben Pope
+E: benpope81@gmail.com
+T: x86
+O: Ubuntu
+
+N: Sylvestre Ledru
+E: sylvestre@debian.org
+T: x86
+O: Debian
+
+N: Nikola Smiljanic
+E: popizdeh@gmail.com
+T: x86
+O: OpenSUSE, Fedora
+
+N: Brian Cain
+E: brian.cain@gmail.com
+T: x86
+O: SuSE Enterprise, CentOS
+
+N: Bernhard Rosenkränzer
+E: bero@linaro.org
+T: x86
+O: OpenMandriva
+
+N: Dimitry Andric
+E: dimitry@andric.com
+T: x86
+O: FreeBSD
+
+N: Hans Wennborg
+E: hans@chromium.org
+T: x86
+O: Windows
+
+N: Renato Golin
+E: renato.golin@linaro.org
+T: ARM
+O: Linux
+
+N: Diana Picus
+E: diana.picus@linaro.org
+T: AArch64
+O: Linux
+
+N: Vasileios Kalintiris
+E: Vasileios.Kalintiris@imgtec.com
+T: MIPS
+O: Linux
diff --git a/docs/HowToReleaseLLVM.rst b/docs/HowToReleaseLLVM.rst
index e892e493a8d6..5ea6d49cf480 100644
--- a/docs/HowToReleaseLLVM.rst
+++ b/docs/HowToReleaseLLVM.rst
@@ -194,6 +194,9 @@ The official release testers are volunteered from the community and have
 consistently validated and released binaries for their targets/OSs. To contact
 them, you should email the ``release-testers@lists.llvm.org`` mailing list.
 
+The official testers list is in the file ``RELEASE_TESTERS.TXT``, in the ``LLVM``
+repository.
+
 Community Testing
 -----------------