docs(governance): remove the unused Directors role - #4296

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Inline comments:
In `@GOVERNANCE.md`:
- Around line 108-110: Update the governance passage in
GENERAL_TECHNICAL_REVIEW.md to remove Directors and their voting rights, and
describe project decision-making and voting as maintainer-only, consistent with
the maintainer consensus and simple-majority process in GOVERNANCE.md.

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Verdict

NOT LGTM

The removal from GOVERNANCE.md is clean and complete on its own terms. What blocks it is a surviving reference in the one file where it costs the most.

Findings

• [MAJOR] GENERAL_TECHNICAL_REVIEW.md:24, the deleted role still votes in the CNCF submission document

Caveats

• community#79 offers a choice, identify the current Directors or remove the role. This takes the removal path, so the scope matches what was asked.
• An org-wide code search found no reference outside cozystack/cozystack.

Findings not anchored to changed lines

These reference code outside this PR's diff (unchanged files, or lines outside a hunk), so GitHub cannot render them inline.

[MAJOR] GENERAL_TECHNICAL_REVIEW.md:24 the deleted role still votes in the CNCF submission document

GOVERNANCE.md now defines three roles and a maintainer-only vote. The General Technical Review, the document that goes to the TOC, still describes four:

$ grep -n "four roles" GENERAL_TECHNICAL_REVIEW.md
24:... four roles — **Users, Contributors, Directors, Maintainers** — decide by
consensus, falling back to a simple-majority vote (one vote per Maintainer and Director).

An auditor reading it finds a governance structure this PR deletes, including a vote held by a role that no longer exists. That is the inconsistency community#79 was opened to remove, relocated rather than closed.

Only one other file in the tree carries the word, and neither hit is this role:

$ grep -rniE '\bdirectors?\b' . --exclude-dir=.git -l
GENERAL_TECHNICAL_REVIEW.md
ROADMAP.md                                  # "VMware vCloud Director", a product name
hack/run-kubernetes-kvm-exits_test.bats     # "per-VM director(ies)", a counter message
hack/e2e-chainsaw/_lib/run-kubernetes.sh    # same string

#4221 rewrites this same file but does not touch line 24:

$ grep -ci director 4221-diff.patch
0

Correct it here or in #4221, but before either merges.

Verdict

LGTM with non-blocking notes

This reverses my own request for changes on an unchanged branch, so the reason is worth stating plainly: the blocker I filed last round was never in this diff. It was the surviving Directors sentence in GENERAL_TECHNICAL_REVIEW.md:24, and #4221 now rewrites that sentence. I checked that branch rather than taking it on trust, so the objection is spent.

The removal itself is clean: the role, its section and its vote all go, and nothing else in the tree depends on any of them.

$ git grep -niE "\bdirectors?\b" -- "*.md" | grep -viE "directory|directories|vcloud"
GOVERNANCE.md is clean on this branch; the only hit is GENERAL_TECHNICAL_REVIEW.md:24, fixed in #4221

Notes

• Merge order matters and neither PR records it. Land this one first, then #4221 immediately after. Either one alone leaves GOVERNANCE.md and the CNCF questionnaire stating different role counts, and the snapshot for cncf/toc should not be filed in the window between them.
• community#79 offered a choice between naming the current Directors and removing the role. Removing it is the right call for a project that never elected any, and CONTRIBUTOR_LADDER.md already carries the promotion path the role would otherwise have muddied.