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Re: Fencepost accounts restricted to glibc stewards (GNU Maintainers).
- From: Christian Brauner <christian dot brauner at mailbox dot org>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, siddhesh at gotplt dot org, joseph at codesourcery dot com
- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 14:13:28 +0200
- Subject: Re: Fencepost accounts restricted to glibc stewards (GNU Maintainers).
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> On 10/10/2017 04:00 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> > Siddhesh, Joseph,
> >
> > The subject says it all.
> >
> > The FSF says they are restricting fencepost accounts to official
> > GNU Maintainers.
On a sidenote, I just recently learned about this new restriction when I tried
to get a Fencepost account. I basically only wanted the account to be able to
check the list of people that have signed a FSF copyright agreement. It'd be
great if we could somehow decouple this file from having a Fencepost account so
that regular maintainers with write access to glibc like myself can check
whether we can legimitately push a patch to master without having to send any
emails around.
Christian
> >
> > This must be what Richard was talking about in gcc.
> >
> > I suggest we make Siddhesh a GNU Maintainer :-)
>
> ... on a serious note though, how to get "new blood" into the official
> GNU maintainers?
>
> Do we have a process by which maintainers stay on forever until they
> themselves remove their name from the list?
>
> Does the list then in theory keep growing?
>
> Does someone with no commits for 5 years move into the "GNU Maintainer
> Emeritus" list?
>
> What about access to the private libc-maintainers mailing list? It would
> be nice to have all the Emeritus maintainers on there to get historical
> perspective for the newer stewards handling delicate matters.
>
> I for one would like to see new maintainers with proper GNU maintainer
> responsibilities be able to step up to help the glibc community.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Carlos.