Should I guess add that that as a GNU maintainer you also have a responsibility towards the GNU project, to apply its policies, and decisions. To wit,
Being a package maintainer is a relationship between you personally and the GNU Project. The maintainer or maintainers are the ones who take the overall responsibility for the work done on the package, on behalf of the GNU Project. The maintainers generally make the specific decisions about the package, following the project's general standards and principles. Once in a rare while, perhaps once every few years, the GNU Project may make a concrete decision about the package -- about features or implementation methods for the code, or about text in accompanying files -- which you as maintainer should implement.
