Add note for unmaintained community-supported plugins

This change borrowed from Terraform's [archived provider
documentation](https://www.terraform.io/docs/internals/archiving.html)
adds a documentation partial that can be applied to any provisioner
plugin that is not actively maintained by Packer or the community. A
call to action for anyone interested in supporting the plugin has been
added to the Packer README until a better location is made available.

* Mark the salt-masterless plugin as unmaintained
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[CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md)
for best practices and instructions on setting up your development environment
to work on Packer.
## Unmaintained Plugins
As contributors' circumstances change, development on a community-maintained
plugins can slow. When this happens, the Packer team may mark a plugin as
unmaintained, to clearly signal the plugin's status to users.
What does **unmaintained** mean?
1. The code repository and all commit history will still be available.
1. Documentation will remain on the Packer website.
1. Issues and pull requests are monitored as a best effort.
1. No active development will be performed by the Packer team.
If anyone from the community or an interested third party is willing to
maintain a community supported plugin, they can fork the repository for
their own uses. If you are interested in maintaining a plugin that has been
marked as unmaintained, please reach out via [Packer's Issue Tracker](https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/)

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# Salt Masterless Provisioner
@include 'provisioners/unmaintained-plugin.mdx'
Type: `salt-masterless`
The `salt-masterless` Packer provisioner provisions machines built by Packer
using [Salt](http://saltstack.com/) states, without connecting to a Salt
master.
## Basic Example
The example below is fully functional.

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~> **This community-supported provisioner is unmaintained**, read more details in the [README](https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/blob/master/README.md#unmaintained-plugins)