[prep/maintain] Proposed changes in maintain.texi

[Thérèse Godefroy]

Hello,

Webmasters often have to deal with trivial bugs in package web pages:
inexistent home page, dead links, validation errors, outdated
boilerplate, etc. Following a discussion with RMS and John Sullivan
(gnu.org RT #1204847), Ineiev and I modified README.webmastering.html
[0] to explain more clearly how webmasters should handle those bugs.
This is what we came up with ("you" refers to webmasters):

"You do have the technical permission to check out any GNU (or non-GNU)
web repository from Savannah and commit changes. However, package
maintainers are responsible for their own pages, and thus you should not
modify a page unless its maintainer asks you to or confirms a particular
change. The only exception is for small changes that don't affect
meaning, such as fixing (X)HTML validation errors, updating the page to
the latest boilerplate, replacing a wrong bug-reporting address in the
footer, etc. In any event, you should inform the maintainer of the change."

It may be a good idea to modify prep/maintain/ accordingly. This is what
the proposed patch is doing. It also gives a procedure to create home
pages for newly-dubbed GNU packages, and includes recent changes to
maintain.html that were made recently [1].

Thanks for your attention to this matter.

Best regards,
Therese

[0] https://gnu.org/server/standards/README.webmastering.html
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/www-commits/2017-09/msg00181.html

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