I do not know where and when but I think François Charette<http://ctan.org/author/id/charette>made *Philipp Stephani*, the maintainer of polyglossia. Also see https://github.com/phst
It also seems that "eg9" also has commit access to polyglossia on github. see https://github.com/eg9
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