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 ### Changes in Maintainership
 
-Maintainers can be removed if at least 2/3 of existing maintainers agree.
+Every 6 months (March and September) active maintainers fill in a survey covering what they have been doing as a maintainer 
+for the last period, and what they are planning on focusing on in the next period. The survey is not made publicly 
+available, but is shared with existing maintainers. This serves two purposes; firstly for the maintainers group to better
+understand what each maintainer is focusing on, and secondly to identify maintainers that are no longer active.
+
+In the majority of cases a maintainer is removed by the maintainer stepping down themselves (by sending an email to
+keycloak-maintainers(at)googlegroups.com). However, in exceptional circumstances a maintainer can also be removed with
+2/3 of votes from existing maintainers.
 
 
 ## Contributing Changes