GNU C Library Steering Committee - Aligning glibc terminology with gcc

[Adhemerval Zanella Netto]

On 05/06/25 15:24, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> In 2012 we officially dissolved the GNU C Library steering committee
> (active since 2001) with Roland posting about it here:
> https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-alpha/2012-03/msg01038.html
> 
> Since 2013 we began using the term "steward" as shorthand for
> glibc maintainers that had responsibilities to the GNU Project as
> GNU Project maintainers.
> 
> Regardless of what we call these people, I am incredibly thankful
> for them and all the developers who contribute day-in and day-out
> to the project in support of our users :-)
> 
> Recently the EU CRA legislation has given specific meaning to the
> term "open-source steward" and so in order to avoid any confusion
> and align our terminology with the rest of the GNU Toolchain
> I'm suggestion we reinstate the term "steering committee."
> 
> (1) Use the term "steering committee" to refer to the collection
>     of all of the GNU Project Maintainers for glibc
> 
>     - The "libc steering committee" exists in the GNU Project
>       maintainers file and Maxim and I maintain
>       libc-maintainers@gnu.org with updated records, and some past
>       maintainers are on the list to help answer historical
>       questions (only Roland and Mark currently).
> 
> (2) Use "steering committee" instead of "steward" on the
>     MAINTAINERS page: https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/MAINTAINERS
> 
> (3) No other change in the way the project operates today.
> 
>     - The intent is to make a "name only" change.

Sounds good to me.

> 
> I think it's a good idea to align with the usage in gcc, and thus
> the GNU Toolchain usage.
> 
> If I don't hear any objections I'll go ahead and make these changes
> in July ahead of the August release of glibc 2.42.
> 
> Please feel free to provide any feedback.
>