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Re: Fencepost accounts restricted to glibc stewards (GNU Maintainers).
- From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at gotplt dot org>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 22:56:54 -0700
- 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.
>
> 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.