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Update governance to add wording for core subprojects having a maintainers list #148

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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions GOVERNANCE.md
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Expand Up @@ -137,6 +137,12 @@ core committers.
If a project is approved, a maintainer will add the project to the containerd
GitHub organization, and make an announcement on a public forum.

Core projects may have a separate maintainers list which are responsible for
only maintaining their subproject. The `MAINTAINERS` file of a core subproject
will only need to list the additional maintainers for that subproject-the core
maintainers will also be responsible for maintenance but do not need to be
appended to each subproject.

Please add the suggested text from our [Project core documents](./README.md#project-core-documents) section
to your `README.md`.

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Expand Up @@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ As a containerd sub-project, you will find the:
information in our [`containerd/project`](https://github.com/containerd/project) repository.
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If the project has its own `MAINTAINERS` file, that file should contain a comment with a link to
the core `MAINTAINERS` file in `containerd/project` and mention it as additional maintainers.

### Non-core project documents

If your project is a non-core addition to the containerd GitHub organization, please
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