diff --git a/MAINTAINERS.md b/MAINTAINERS.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9af6c89dfaf..00000000000
--- a/MAINTAINERS.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-Committers
-----------
-
-OVS committers are the people who have been granted access to push changes to
-to the OVS git repository.  The responsibilities of an OVS committer are
-documented in
-[committer-responsibilities.md](./Documentation/committer-responsibilities.md).
-
-The process for adding or removing committers is in
-[committer-grant-revocation.md](./Documentation/committer-grant-revocation.md).
-
-This is the current list of OVS committers:
-
-    Alex Wang               ee07b291@gmail.com
-    Andy Zhou               azhou@ovn.org
-    Ansis Atteka            aatteka@nicira.com
-    Ben Pfaff               blp@ovn.org
-    Daniele Di Proietto     daniele.di.proietto@gmail.com
-    Ethan J. Jackson        ejj@eecs.berkeley.edu
-    Gurucharan Shetty       guru@ovn.org
-    Jarno Rajahalme         jarno@ovn.org
-    Jesse Gross             jesse@kernel.org
-    Joe Stringer            joe@ovn.org
-    Justin Pettit           jpettit@ovn.org
-    Pravin B Shelar         pshelar@nicira.com
-    Russell Bryant          russell@ovn.org
-    Simon Horman            horms@ovn.org
-    Thomas Graf             tgraf@noironetworks.com
-    YAMAMOTO Takashi        yamamoto@midokura.com
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS.rst b/MAINTAINERS.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..34f4e7b68d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MAINTAINERS.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+..
+      Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+      not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+      a copy of the License at
+
+          http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+      Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+      distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+      WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+      License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+      under the License.
+
+      Convention for heading levels in Open vSwitch documentation:
+
+      =======  Heading 0 (reserved for the title in a document)
+      -------  Heading 1
+      ~~~~~~~  Heading 2
+      +++++++  Heading 3
+      '''''''  Heading 4
+
+      Avoid deeper levels because they do not render well.
+
+==========
+Committers
+==========
+
+Open vSwitch committers are the people who have been granted access to push
+changes to to the Open vSwitch git repository.
+
+The responsibilities of an Open vSwitch committer are documented
+`here <Documentation/committer-responsibilities.md>`__.
+
+The process for adding or removing committers is documented
+`here <Documentation/committer-grant-revocation.md>`__.
+
+This is the current list of Open vSwitch committers:
+
+.. list-table:: OVS Maintainers
+   :header-rows: 1
+
+   * - Name
+     - Email
+   * - Alex Wang
+     - ee07b291@gmail.com
+   * - Andy Zhou
+     - azhou@ovn.org
+   * - Ansis Atteka
+     - aatteka@nicira.com
+   * - Ben Pfaff
+     - blp@ovn.org
+   * - Daniele Di Proietto
+     - daniele.di.proietto@gmail.com
+   * - Ethan J. Jackson
+     - ejj@eecs.berkeley.edu
+   * - Gurucharan Shetty
+     - guru@ovn.org
+   * - Jarno Rajahalme
+     - jarno@ovn.org
+   * - Jesse Gross
+     - jesse@kernel.org
+   * - Joe Stringer
+     - joe@ovn.org
+   * - Justin Pettit
+     - jpettit@ovn.org
+   * - Pravin B Shelar
+     - pshelar@nicira.com
+   * - Russell Bryant
+     - russell@ovn.org
+   * - Simon Horman
+     - horms@ovn.org
+   * - Thomas Graf
+     - tgraf@noironetworks.com
+   * - YAMAMOTO Takashi
+     - yamamoto@midokura.com
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index f7bba1dd85e..e6899964b65 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ docs = \
 	INSTALL.userspace.rst \
 	INSTALL.Windows.rst \
 	IntegrationGuide.rst \
-	MAINTAINERS.md \
+	MAINTAINERS.rst \
 	OPENFLOW-1.1+.md \
 	PORTING.md \
 	README.md \