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Expand Up @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Changes to org maintainers use the following:
* Any project maintainer of any active (non-archived) Helm organization project is eligible for a position as an org maintainer.
* No one company or organization can employ a simple majority of the org maintainers
* An org maintainer may step down by emailing the org maintainers mailing list. Within 7 calendar days the [helm mailing list](https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-helm) needs to be notified of the change
* Org maintainers MUST remain active on the project. If they are unresponsive for > 3 months they will lose org maintainership unless a [super-majority](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermajority#Two-thirds_vote) of the other org maintainers agrees to extend the period to be greater than 3 months
* Org maintainers MUST remain active on the project. If they are unresponsive for > 3 months they will lose org maintainership unless a [two-thirds super-majority] of the other org maintainers agrees to extend the period to be greater than 3 months
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* Org maintainers MUST remain active on the project. If they are unresponsive for > 3 months they will lose org maintainership unless a [two-thirds super-majority] of the other org maintainers agrees to extend the period to be greater than 3 months
* Org maintainers MUST remain active on the project. If they are unresponsive for > 3 months they will lose org maintainership unless a [two-thirds super-majority](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermajority#Two-thirds) of the other org maintainers agrees to extend the period to be greater than 3 months

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* When there is an opening for a new org maintainer, any person who has made a contribution to any repo under the Helm GitHub org may nominate a suitable project maintainer of an active project as a replacement
* The nomination period will be three weeks starting the day after an org maintainer opening becomes available
* The nomination must be made via the [public Helm mailing list](https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-helm/)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -71,8 +71,8 @@ Project maintainers do not need to be software developers. No explicit role is p
Changes to maintainers use the following:

* A maintainer may step down by emailing the [Helm mailing list](https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-helm)
* Maintainers MUST remain active. If they are unresponsive for > 3 months they will be automatically removed unless a [super-majority](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermajority#Two-thirds_vote) of the other project maintainers agrees to extend the period to be greater than 3 months
* New maintainers can be added to a project by a [super-majority](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermajority#Two-thirds_vote) vote of the existing maintainers. While nomination will happen on the public [Helm mailing list](https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-helm), voting will happen on the private maintainer list.
* Maintainers MUST remain active. If they are unresponsive for > 3 months they will be automatically removed unless a [two-thirds super-majority] of the other project maintainers agrees to extend the period to be greater than 3 months
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* Maintainers MUST remain active. If they are unresponsive for > 3 months they will be automatically removed unless a [two-thirds super-majority] of the other project maintainers agrees to extend the period to be greater than 3 months
* Maintainers MUST remain active. If they are unresponsive for > 3 months they will be automatically removed unless a [two-thirds super-majority](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermajority#Two-thirds) of the other project maintainers agrees to extend the period to be greater than 3 months

* New maintainers can be added to a project by a [two-thirds super-majority] vote of the existing maintainers. While nomination will happen on the public [Helm mailing list](https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-helm), voting will happen on the private maintainer list.
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* New maintainers can be added to a project by a [two-thirds super-majority] vote of the existing maintainers. While nomination will happen on the public [Helm mailing list](https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-helm), voting will happen on the private maintainer list.
* New maintainers can be added to a project by a [two-thirds super-majority](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermajority#Two-thirds) vote of the existing maintainers. While nomination will happen on the public [Helm mailing list](https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-helm), voting will happen on the private maintainer list.

* When a project has no maintainers the Helm org maintainers become responsible for it and may archive the project or find new maintainers
* When maintainers no longer maintain active projects due to project archival or removal, they become emeritus maintainers unless they join another Helm project as maintainers.

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -108,3 +108,5 @@ The following licenses and contributor agreements will be used for Helm projects
* [Apache 2.0](https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0) for code
* [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) for documentation
* [Developer Certificate of Origin](https://developercertificate.org/) for new contributions

[two-thirds super-majority]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermajority#Two-thirds