Project governance: introduce "emeritus" member status

[kenhys]

Describe the bug

Currently, there is no term for Fluentd maintainers.

More contributor involved, it tend to hard to call for voting in a timely manner which is described in Voting because it requires 2/3 majority.

This situation is caused because inactive members and active members are treated as "same" individuals.

To Reproduce

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Expected behavior

Introduce "emeritus" maintainer status

"emeritus" means:

• Inactive members (no commit, no community activity) for SPECIFIC TERM(T.B.D.)
• Marked inactive members "emeritus" and add such status will be described "emeritus" section in MAINTAINERS.md (do not remove because I honor their achievements)
• No voting qualification

https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/blob/master/GOVERNANCE.md#voting should be revised such as:

New maintainers are proposed by an existing maintainer and are elected by a 2/3 majority organization vote.

Maintainers can be resigned or removed by a 2/3 majority organization vote.

Inactive or resigned members will be treated as having "emeritus" status. "emeritus" status of maintainers don't have a ballot to vote.
Inactive means: no commitment or no community activity for 5 years.

NOTE: above sentence is just an draft.

Your Environment

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Your Configuration

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Your Error Log

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Additional context

Apache project introduces "emeritus" ref. https://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html#emeritus

[daipom]

Background: At the previous vote, there was an issue of slow progress in voting.

[daipom]

Thanks for creating this issue! I agree with these changes. We might also consider the following.

If we make the threshold a percentage, it will be difficult to progress voting as the number of maintainers increases. So, it may also be worth considering the condition such that a certain number of approvals(3?) and no objections are required.

ref: code modifications and veto of Apache Voting Process

• https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting#apache-voting-process

  the proposal requires three positive votes and no negative votes in order to pass

[kenhys]

About threshold issue is splitted into another issue.

[daipom]

Thanks!

[daipom]

If there is no disagreement in this direction, then we would consider the conditions that make a member emeritus, right?

Example:

• No commitment or no community activity for 5 years. (An example @kenhys gives us)
• Did not participate in the last 3 voting.
• ...

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