introduce demotion rules

While reviewing our contribution guidelines in #139, we found we had no formal way of removing disappeared or idle maintainers, at least not explicitly, in the Membership section. This was a problem to get changes done on the contributing document which requires consensus from the maintainers.

This change introduces a way to make changes to the document by using it as a "vote of confidence", in a way: if a change is proposed and an administrator does not respond within a given 1-month delay, the administrator can be demoted down to a regular maintainer and the document approved.

Closes: #139
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anarcat 2018-06-22 09:55:11 -04:00 committed by Antoine Beaupré
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@ -135,3 +135,8 @@ requests.
Maintainers can be promoted to administrators when they have given significant
contributions for a sustained timeframe, by consensus of the current
administrators. This process should be open and decided as any other issue.
Maintainers can be demoted by administrators and administrators can be
demoted by the other administrators' consensus. Unresponsive maintainers
or administrators can be removed after a month unless they specifically
announced a leave.