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CONTRIBUTING.md: describe adoption/orphaning policy and procedure

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### Adopting a template
If a template is orphaned (maintained by `orphan@voidlinux.org`) or the current `maintainer` has not contributed to
Void in over a year, template maintainership can be adopted by someone else. To ensure a template gets the care it needs,
template adopters should be familiar with the package and have an established history of contributions to Void.
Those who have contributed several updates, especially for the template in question, are good candidates for template
maintainership.
It is best to adopt a template when making another change to it. When adopting the template, add your name or username
and email to the `maintainer` field in the template, and mention the adoption in your commit message, for example:
libfoo: update to 1.2.3, adopt.
### Orphaning a template
If you no longer wish to maintain a template, you can remove yourself as maintainer by setting the `maintainer` field in
the template to `Orphaned <orphan@voidlinux.org>`. The commit message should mention this, for example:
libfoo: orphan.
It is not necessary to make other changes to the template when orphaning, and incrementing the revision (triggering a
rebuild) is not necessary either.
### Committing your changes ### Committing your changes
After making your changes, please check that the package builds successfully. From the top level directory of your local copy of the `void-packages` repository, run: After making your changes, please check that the package builds successfully. From the top level directory of your local copy of the `void-packages` repository, run: