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Update governance voting on new maintainers #415

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Expand Up @@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ 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.
* 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. Nomination can happen on the public [Helm mailing list](https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-helm) with voting on the private maintainer list or it can happen from a pull request to the appropriate record of maintainer for the project (e.g., OWNERS file) with voting happening through approvals on the pull request.
* 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.

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