[gfsd]Re: co-maintainership

[Richard Stallman]

I hereby appoint you as the new co-maintainer of GNU Chess along with
Stuart Cracraft.  Please notify me if ever you wish to step down.

The new-gnu people will mail you a file, maintain.text, which
describes a lot of procedures for GNU maintainers.  The file also
describes who you can ask for various kinds of support or advice.  If
you encounter a situation where it isn't clear what to do, you can
also ask address@hidden, which is a list of a few other GNU
maintainers who have offered to answer questions for new maintainers.

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maintainers, but whether to stay on the list is up to you.

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address@hidden when you have a version to release.  If you need,
we can make an acct for you on ftp.gnu.org so you can install new
versions.

If the distribution site is not now ftp.gnu.org, we can move it there
if you wish.  We invite you to put the CVS repository on
subversions.gnu.org, but it is ok to use another site if you prefer.

Part of the maintainer's job is maintaining the web pages about the
program.  The main web site for a GNU program should be
http://www.gnu.org/software/PROGRAMNAME.  These pages should really
provide the main web site for the program, not just a link to another
site, with all the web information for users; please cite
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for the home page of the program.  (It is ok to put pages that address
developers-only topics on another site, and likewise for pages that
access databases.)

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Please make sure that the program has an up-to-date entry in our Free
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new-gnu people, could you please enter Simon Waters in
gnuorg/maintainers, add him to the gnu-prog lists, and send him a copy
of maintain.text?