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On 2023-09-06 11:57, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> 
> Are you implying that the decision to become a CNA (or not) has to be 
> taken by the GNU maintainers and that volunteers from the glibc 
> community cannot self-organize and do that?

In practice this sort of thing has been decentralized (one might even 
say "disorganized"...) and I don't think there's any requirement by the 
GNU project that it be centralized. It's merely a matter of what's 
better for users and maintainers.