Merge pull request #14238 from serathius/emeritus

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

GOVERNANCE.md

@@ -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 +39,35 @@ 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
-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.
-
-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.
+### Nomination and retiring of maintainers
+
+[Maintainers](./MAINTAINERS) file on the `main` branch reflects the latest
+state of project maintainers. List of existing maintainers should be kept up to
+date by existing maintainers to properly reflect community health and to gain
+better understanding of recruiting need for new 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.
+
+Life priorities, interests, and passions can change. Maintainers can retire and
+move to the [emeritus status](./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 maintainers. In that case inactive maintainer will
+be first notified via an email. If situation doesn't improve, they will be
+removed. If an emeritus maintainer wants to regain an active role, they can do
+so by renewing their contributions. Active maintainers should welcome such a move.
+Retiring of other maintainers or regaining the status should require approval
+of at least two active maintainers.
 
 ## Reviewers