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Add process to remove maintainers that don't fulfill their duties

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When asking CNCF for support due to reduced community activity we stumbled upon a problem,
governing board was surprised that project is unmaintained as there is so many maintainers listed for the project.

Feedback was to improve accuracy of maintainers list so it reflects only active maintainers.
Self nominating process it not enough and we need to start enforcing
moving maintainers to emeritus status. Period of 12 months to take maternity leave into account.

Signed-off-by: Marek Siarkowicz <siarkowicz@google.com>
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@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ please see [CONTRIBUTING](./CONTRIBUTING.md) guide.
## Maintainers
[Maintainers](./MAINTAINERS) are first and foremost contributors that have shown they
Maintainers are first and foremost contributors that have shown they
are committed to the long term success of a project. Maintainership is about building
trust with the current maintainers of the project and being a person that they can
depend on to make decisions in the best interest of the project in a consistent manner.
@ -39,18 +39,30 @@ below.
- Resolution of bugs triaged to a package/feature
- Regularly review pull requests to the pkg subsystem
Contributors who are interested in becoming a maintainer, if performing these
### Nomination and retiring of maintainers
[Maintainers](./MAINTAINERS) file on the `main` branch reflects the latest
state of project maintainers. Changes to list of maintainers should be done by
opening a pull request and CCing all the existing maintainers.
Contributors who are interested in becoming a maintainer, if performing relevant
responsibilities, should discuss their interest with the existing maintainers. New
maintainers must be nominated by an existing maintainer and must be elected by a
supermajority of maintainers with a fallback on lazy consensus after three business weeks
inactive voting period and as long as two maintainers are on board. Maintainers can be
removed by a supermajority of the maintainers and moved to emeritus status.
inactive voting period and as long as two maintainers are on board.
Life priorities, interests, and passions can change. If a maintainer needs to step
down, inform other maintainers about this intention, and if possible, help find someone
to pick up the related work. At the very least, ensure the related work can be continued.
Afterward, create a pull request to remove yourself from the [MAINTAINERS](./MAINTAINERS)
file.
Life priorities, interests, and passions can change. Maintainers can retire and
be removed from [maintainers](./MAINTAINERS) list and added to
[emeritus](./README.md#etcd-emeritus-maintainers). If a maintainer needs to step
down, they should inform other maintainers, if possible, help find someone to
pick up the related work. At the very least, ensure the related work can be
continued. Afterward they can remove themselves from list of existing maintainers.
If a maintainer is not been performing their duties for period of 12 months,
they can be removed by other active maintainers. If an emeritus maintainer wants
to regain an active role, they can do so after renewing their contributions.
Retiring of other maintainers or regaining the status should require approval
of at least two active maintainers.
## Reviewers