diff --git a/admin/MAINTAINERS b/admin/MAINTAINERS
index 16601a76bd6..9bfdcdc7489 100644
--- a/admin/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/admin/MAINTAINERS
@@ -233,9 +233,22 @@ Philip Kaludercic
        lisp/emacs-lisp/compat.el
        lisp/net/rcirc.el
 
+Sean Whitton
+	VC
+	    lisp/vc/*
+	    doc/emacs/files.texi (Diff Mode)
+	    doc/emacs/maintaining.texi (Version Control)
+	    doc/emacs/vc*-xtra.texi
+	    doc/emacs/emerge-xtra.texi
+	    doc/misc/ediff.texi
+	    test/lisp/vc/*
+
 ==============================================================================
 2. Areas that someone is willing to maintain, although he would not
 necessarily mind if someone else was the official maintainer.
+This list also includes people who are in the process of handing over
+maintainership to someone listed above, but who want to continue to be
+CC'd as though they were still the primary maintainer, in the meantime.
 ==============================================================================
 
 Kelvin White