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Objective
This change documents the maintainer lifecycle proceduces for project Maintainers.

Note: the Oversight Commitee lifecycle procedures are out of scope

Related Issues

Closes #59
Closes #127

Requirements: Per our governance documentation, this update requires a majority vote of the Oversight Committee

Need clarification on whether supermajority is needed. This remove a section of the Governance process so it may be super majority.

Significant Decisions/Changes

  • Maintainer can self nominate - Incorporates docs: update MEMBERSHIP.md to allow maintainers to self nominate #132
  • Inactivity timeframe is reduced to 6 months from 12 to match project velocity requirements
  • Specific project Maintainer process (how we execute what is in the GOVERNANCE.md at the subproject level) information in added in MAINTAINER_GUIDELINES

Removes information about maintainer lifecyle to move to a separate document

Signed-off-by: Jennifer Power <barnabei.jennifer@gmail.com>
Adds nomination and stepping down process

Signed-off-by: Jennifer Power <barnabei.jennifer@gmail.com>
Adds link to maintainer guidelines for the nomination process

Signed-off-by: Jennifer Power <barnabei.jennifer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jennifer Power <barnabei.jennifer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jennifer Power <barnabei.jennifer@gmail.com>
@jpower432 jpower432 added governance Project governance vote Decision issue decided on by voting labels Jul 25, 2025
@jpower432 jpower432 marked this pull request as ready for review July 29, 2025 12:39
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@vikas-agarwal76 Can we continue the MEMBERSHIP.md disucssion here? My intent with MAINTAINER_GUIDELINES.md was to go into more detail on the processes and have the MEMBERSHIP.md clearly define what the roles are and how they are documented. I don't have a strong opinion on having separate or a single document.

@jpower432 jpower432 marked this pull request as draft July 29, 2025 17:53
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PR #135 closes this.

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Document the emeritus maintainer process Allow project maintainers to self nominate

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