From 42e2dccdcc9f3ff77771b036bad8786d5640074d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: OpenTelemetry Bot <107717825+opentelemetrybot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2026 08:22:18 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] chore: Move inactive members to emeritus

---
 README.md | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 11c3c84f..88671ea3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -93,3 +93,10 @@ See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md).
 [versioning]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java/blob/main/VERSIONING.md
 
 <!-- TODO(jack-berg): add code coverage badge? -->
+
+### Emeritus
+
+- [Josh Suereth](https://github.com/jsuereth), Approver
+
+For more information about the emeritus role, see the
+[community repository](https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/main/guides/contributor/membership.md#emeritus-maintainerapprovertriager).