On Wed Dec 01 15:23:43 2021, Andrew Engelbrecht <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello GNU webmasters, > > The following page seems to imply that any GNU contributor may have a > fencepost account. In actuality, only a subset of GNU maintainers have > acess, aside from edge cases like some webmasters, FSF interns, etc. > As far as I can tell, the maintainers who do have access tend to be > either the sole maintainer of a given package, or they serve an > administrative role for that package. The way I know which maintainers > to accept is according to a file maintained by the [email protected] > volunteers. > > We shouldn't include all of that detail, but it would be helpful if we > say that some, but not all contributors to GNU may have an account. > > If it stays the same, it's not a big deal, but would likely lead to a > little less frustration for people applying for and being rejected > from getting a fencepost account. > > https://www.gnu.org/software/README.accounts.html > > Thanks, : ) > Andrew
If access to fencepost is intended only for maintainers (since the sysadmins check the maintainers file), maybe this page can be merged into maintain.texi and deleted. Add [email protected] to see what they say on the topic.
