diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
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@@ -4412,6 +4412,7 @@ Functional testing framework
 M: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
 R: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
 R: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
+S: Maintained
 F: docs/devel/testing/functional.rst
 F: scripts/clean_functional_cache.py
 F: tests/functional/qemu_test/