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All changes also require separate approval.
Proposal
Essentially relax the first requirement of the process for ie "The proposed maintainer authors and has accepted five significant changes".
Since we trust besu maintainers to make changes to the code, this proposal is to also trust those individuals to make changes to the related docs. Individuals need to be aware of their areas of expertise. Just as we expect besu maintainers to use their judgment when reviewing besu PRs, we expect besu-docs maintainers to use their judgment when reviewing besu-docs PRs. If the change is significant, defer to someone with expertise in that area.
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- ask for volunteers from current besu Besu maintainers become besu-docs maintainers
- current besu-docs maintainers raise PR to add none/some/all of those volunteers, and this PR requires approval as per the process
- existing besu-docs maintainers remain besu-docs maintainers
- still keep the separate process for someone to become a besu-docs maintainer without first becoming a besu maintainer.