diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 2cd463e8c4..5fa999c3a9 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-# This is the official list of people who can contribute
-# (and typically have contributed) code to the Gitea repository.
+# This is the official list of people who have contributed code to the Gitea/Gogs repository.
 #
 # The submission process automatically checks to make sure
 # that people submitting code are listed in this file (by email address).
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 2cd463e8c4..d39bcc53dc 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-# This is the official list of people who can contribute
-# (and typically have contributed) code to the Gitea repository.
+# This is the official list of people who have spent time on code review Pull Requests on the Gitea repository.
 #
 # The submission process automatically checks to make sure
 # that people submitting code are listed in this file (by email address).