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 </p>
 
 <p>
-Maintainer is responsible for testing in various possible permutations of
+Nomination happens in the mesa-stable@ mailing list. However,
+maintainer is resposible of checking for forgotten candidates in the
+master branch. This is achieved by a combination of ad-hoc scripts and
+a casual search for terms such as regression, fix, broken and similar.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Maintainer is also responsible for testing in various possible permutations of
 the autoconf and scons build.
 </p>