tree cd85037b5d90147b83cf78b27aff8810e7e76df1
parent 210f95aa44f75c2bac966544c83266f5757e416a
author Edwin Kempin <ekempin@google.com> 1557136644 +0200
committer Edwin Kempin <ekempin@google.com> 1563955370 +0200

Define clear criteria for maintainer election

At the moment the election process for new maintainers is not clearly
defined:

* Is consensus reached if some of the maintainers do not vote?
* How long must a nomination stay open before a new maintainer can be
  accepted?

Make this clearer and require that:

* nominations stay open for at least 14 calendar days
* there are at least 5 positive votes
* there are no negative votes (during the 14 days)

Specifying this is important if we consider that we have some inactive
maintainers that likely don't take part in votes and in this situation
the maintainer election should not get stalled waiting on their votes.

If there are negative votes that are considered unjustified, the
engineering steering committee may get involved to decide whether the
new maintainer can be accepted anyway. Being able to escalate negative
votes to the ESC is important to avoid that a single maintainer can
block the whole process.

Bug: Issue 11069
Signed-off-by: Edwin Kempin <ekempin@google.com>
Change-Id: I888897f8f2ee5f35436acee8885d6ed994f750e2