GNU C Library Steering Committee - Aligning glibc terminology with gcc

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 6/17/25 7:53 AM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 6/16/25 8:19 PM, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On Jun 16, 2025, "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Stewards was a term we invented in 2013 to avoid continually using a longer
>>> word when something shorter would do.
>>
>>> There was no specific negotiation with the GNU Project, and I added it to
>>> the wiki in October 2013.
>>
>> I stand corrected, sorry for the mixup and noise, thank you and jsm for
>> pointing it out.  It was the GCC SC term that had been agreed upon by
>> all parties involved.  (That seems to bring me one more reason to prefer
>> staying away from that term, to avoid further confusion about the
>> different situations of the packages)
>>
>>> I'm OK just dropping the term steward if that works for you?
>>
>> It does.  I'm fine with GNU maintainers.
> 
> I'm glad we could reach a solution for the project.

The solution is now implemented.

"MAINTAINERS"
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/MAINTAINERS

  * Dropped the use of the word "steward."
  * Use "GNU package maintainer" instead of steward where required.

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Cheers,
Carlos.