feat: increase global maintainer permissions

[aepfli]

Increasing the permissions of global maintainers, to ensure they can support the community in all the needs

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Summary of Changes

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This pull request increases the permission level for global maintainers to 'Admin' across all repositories. The change is designed to empower maintainers with greater capabilities to support the community and manage repository needs more effectively.

Highlights

• Maintainer Permissions: Global maintainers' repository permissions have been elevated from 'Maintain' to 'Admin' level, granting them full administrative control over repositories.

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Code Review

This pull request increases the permissions for global maintainers from Maintain to Admin across all repositories. While the intent is to better support the community, this change introduces a security risk by granting broad administrative privileges. My review highlights this concern and recommends adhering to the principle of least privilege unless there is a strong justification for the Admin role.

[toddbaert]

I think this is a good idea.

Do we have any docs on this somewhere? Maybe we should mention it in community.