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 ### Unmaintained
 
 A component identified as unmaintained does not have an active code owner. Such component may have never been assigned a code owner or a previously active code owner has not responded to requests for feedback within 6 weeks of being contacted. Issues and pull requests for unmaintained components will be labelled as such. After 3 months of being unmaintained, these components will be removed from official distribution. Components that are unmaintained are actively seeking contributors to become code owners.
+
+Components that were accepted based on being vendor-specific components will be marked as unmaintained if
+they have no active code owners from the vendor even if there are other code owners listed. As part of being marked unmaintained, we'll attempt to contact the vendor to notify them of the change. Other active code
+owners may petition for its continued maintenance if they want, at which point the component will no
+longer be considered vendor-specific.