GNU C Library Steering Committee - Aligning glibc terminology with gcc

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 6/5/25 2:34 PM, Adhemerval Zanella Netto wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

Thanks for the +1 Adhemerval.

>>
>> 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.
>>
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Cheers,
Carlos.