diff -u /tmp/001-gcd-process-v8.md /tmp/001-gcd-process-v9.md
--- /tmp/001-gcd-process-v8.md	2025-01-16 16:51:08.758030546 +0100
+++ /tmp/001-gcd-process-v9.md	2025-01-16 18:43:01.835296714 +0100
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
 ## How the Process Works

 1. Clone
-   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix/guix-consensus-documents.git .
+   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix/guix-consensus-documents.git
 2. Copy `000-template.md` to `XYZ-short-name.md` where `short-name`
    is a short descriptive name and `XYZ` is the sequence number.
 3. Write your GCD following the template’s structure.  The GCD must not
@@ -92,15 +92,16 @@

 ## Roles

-  - An *author* is the person or one of the persons submitting the RFC.
+  - An *author* is the person or one of the persons submitting the GCD.
     Authors bear the responsibility to carry out the process to its
     conclusion.

   - A *sponsor* is a contributor who, during the submission period (see
     below), informs the author(s) that they would like to support the
-    RFC by participating in discussions, providing constructive comments
+    GCD by participating in discussions, providing constructive comments
     to help the author(s), soliciting opinions, and acting as
-    timekeepers.
+    timekeepers.  As a sponsor, please make sure that all have the time
+    and space for expressing their comments.

     Sponsors should be contributors who consider being sufficiently
     familiar with the project’s practices; hence it is recommended, but
@@ -111,6 +112,10 @@
     members is maintained in the file `etc/teams.scm` in the Guix
     repository.

+  - A *contributor* is a person contributing to Guix either with code,
+    translation, reviewing, etc. and more broadly any person feeling part
+    of the Guix community.
+
 ## Timeline

 A GCD must follow the process illustrated by the diagram below,
@@ -118,21 +123,20 @@


 ```
-                         +-----------+
-          +- - - - - - ->| Withdrawn |<----------------------+
-          :              +-----------+                       |
-          :                    ^                             |
-          :                    :                             |
-+--------------------+   +---------------------+   +---------------------+
-| Submission Period	 |   |  Discussion Period  |   | Deliberation Period |
-|  (up to 7 days)    |-->|   (30–60 days)      |-->|     (14 days)		 |
-+--------------------+   +---------------------+   +---------------------+
-                                                             |
-                                                             |
++--------------------+    +---------------------+   +---------------------+
+| Submission Period  |    |  Discussion Period  |   | Deliberation Period |
+|  (up to 7 days)    |-X->|   (30–60 days)      |-->|     (14 days)	      |
++--------------------+ :  +---------------------+   +---------------------+
+          :            :           :                         |
+          :            v           :                         |
+          :         declined       v                         |
+          :                  o-----------o                   |
+          +- - - - - - - - ->| Withdrawn |<----------------- X
+                             o-----------o                   |
                                                              V
-                                                       +----------+
-                                                       | Accepted |
-                                                       +----------+
+                                                        o----------o
+                                                        | Accepted |
+                                                        o----------o
 ```

 The subsections below detail the various periods and their duration.
@@ -150,8 +154,11 @@

 ### Discussion Period (at least 30 days, up to 60 days)

-Once submitted, the GCD is publicly discussed; authors are encouraged to
-publish updated versions incorporating feedback during the discussion.
+Once submitted, the GCD is publicly discussed by all the members of the
+community.  Authors are encouraged to publish updated versions
+incorporating feedback during the discussion; members are encouraged to
+share a summary of their main concerns or opposition, if any, for being
+included under section “Open Issues” in the document.

 When deemed appropriate, between 30 days and 60 days after the start
 of the discussion period, the author(s) may publish a final version and
@@ -159,8 +166,11 @@

 ### Deliberation Period (14 days)

-All team members can participate in deliberation and are encouraged to
-do so.
+Deliberation aims at consolidating consensus; see “Decision Making”
+below.
+
+Anyone who is a team member is a deliberating member and is encouraged
+to contribute to the deliberation.

 Once the final version is published, team members have 14 days to send
 one of the following replies on the patch-tracking entry of the GCD:
@@ -176,13 +186,6 @@
 reply, and (2) no one disapproves.  In other cases, the GCD is
 *withdrawn*.

-Deliberation aims at consolidating consensus; see “Decision Making”
-below.
-
-Anyone who is a team member is a deliberating member and is encouraged
-to contribute to the deliberation.  Team members are defined by the
-file etc/teams.scm (see “Teams” in the manual).
-
 GCD acceptance is not a rubber stamp; in particular, it does not mean
 the proposal will effectively be implemented, but it does mean that all
 the participants consent to its implementation.
@@ -215,7 +218,7 @@
    `status` to `accepted` or `withdrawn`; adding the URL of the
    discussion in the `discussion` header; updating the `date` header; if
    previously-accepted GCDs are deprecated by this new GCD, change the
-   `status` header accordingly);
+   `status` header accordingly with `deprecated`);
 2. committing everything;
 3. announcing the publication of the GCD.


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