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@@ -47,4 +47,10 @@ It is the role of maintainers to best adapt the governance model to the evolutio
 3. Maintainers can be invited from regular contributors at any point in time; maintainers wishing to leave the governance of the project may inform the other maintainers.
 In both cases, updates to this document reflect the evolution of the governance team and rules.
 
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