For the record, it looks like this policy comes from the package "developers-reference", section "Collaborative maintenance".
-- Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY PGP 015AE9B25DCB0511D200A75DE5674DEA514C891D
- Re: PAPT: join request Stewart Ferguson
- Re: PAPT: join request Ondrej Novy
- PAPT: join request Peter Zahradnik
- Re: PAPT: join request Ondrej Novy
- PAPT: join request intrigeri
- Re: Policy About Maintainer and Uploaders F... Thomas Goirand
- Re: Policy About Maintainer and Uploade... Louis-Philippe Véronneau
- Re: Policy About Maintainer and Upl... Utkarsh Gupta
- Re: Policy About Maintainer and Uploade... Sandro Tosi
- Re: Policy About Maintainer and Upl... Thomas Goirand
- Re: Policy About Maintainer and... Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY
- Re: Policy About Maintaine... Thomas Goirand
- Re: Policy About Maintainer and... Scott Kitterman
- Re: Policy About Maintaine... Thomas Goirand
- Re: Policy About Maint... Sandro Tosi
- Re: Policy About Maint... Thomas Goirand
- Re: PAPT: join request Piotr Ożarowski
- PAPT: join request Joel Cross
- Re: PAPT: join request Sergio Durigan Junior
- Re: PAPT: join request Stefano Rivera
- Re: PAPT: join request Joel Cross
