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Clarify process for updating the list of projects

François Rosé (OOO, back 2024-11-04) requested to merge francoisrose/2023-12-13-process-change-update-list-projects into master

Why is this change being made?

The guidance for updating the list of projects is outdated, as evidenced by a recent MR: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-data/analytics/-/merge_requests/9025#note_1689184231

This MR updates the process to reflect the current steps needed to update this file.

In particular, this removes Engineering Productivity as the main driver of the change, to instead rely on any of the file's codeowners (these are all the Directors of Engineering).

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Edited by François Rosé (OOO, back 2024-11-04)

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