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Number of approvals for new Maintainers

Rachel Nienaber requested to merge rnienaber-maintainer-approval into master

Currently, half of the existing maintainers for a given field are required to approve a new Maintainer. As the set of Maintainers grows, this becomes more challenging. At this time, we have 25 Backend Maintainers and 10 Frontend Maintainers.

This MR proposes that we change the number of approvals required for new Maintainers. For frontend and backend maintainers, we could reduce the number to 5. For database maintainers, we could keep the number of approvals set to half the number of database maintainers that exist at that point. (We could re-address this wording when there are 10 database maintainers).

The benefits of reducing the number of approvals is primarily to make the process a little more efficient. Requiring five maintainers should still be a large enough set to keep the standard high.

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