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+Background/Rationale:
+
+1. In #750135, the Technical Committee was asked by Manuel Fernandez
+ Montecelo who should be the maintainer of the Aptitude project.
+
+ Manuel Fernandez Montecelo had been actively committing until his
+ commit access was removed by Daniel Hartwig.
+
+ Manuel Fernandez Montecelo and Daniel Hartwig took over development
+ of Aptitude in 2011 with the support of Christian Perrier, an admin
+ for the Aptitude alioth project.
+
+ There was friction between Manuel Fernandez Montecelo and Daniel
+ Hartwig, which eventually resulted in Manuel Fernandez Montecelo's
+ commit access being revoked by Daniel Hartwig.
+
+ Since then, Daniel Hartwig has become inactive, and did not comment
+ on the issue when requested by the Technical Committee.
+
+2. During the discussion of this issue, Christian Perrier proposed
+ that he and Axel Beckert could watch the social aspects of Aptitude
+ development and restore Manuel Fernandez Montecelo's commit access.
+
+ Christian still has administrative rights and believes he has the
+ technical power to implement his proposal, but requested the advice
+ of the technical committee before doing so.
+
+Using the power of the technical committee to provide advice (ยง6.1.5):
+
+1. The Technical Committee agrees that Christian has the power to
+ implement his proposal and encourages him to do so.
+
+2. We hope that Christian and Axel will work to manage the social
+ aspects of the Aptitude project, working to recruit new developers,
+ building a stronger Aptitude development community, and
+ establishing policies and procedures that promote a collaborative
+ team.
+
+3. We thank Manuel Fernandez Montecelo for bringing this matter to our
+ attention and apologize for our delay in resolving this matter.