GNU C Library Steering Committee - Aligning glibc terminology with gcc

Joseph Myers josmyers@redhat.com
Mon Jun 16 23:42:24 GMT 2025


On Mon, 16 Jun 2025, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> On Jun 16, 2025, "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > I am not suggesting we change the name GNU Maintainer, or any other
> > term assigned by the GNU Project, so that is no change.
> 
> "Stewards" was IIRC the term GNU used in the appointment of our
> collective.  What I'm saying is that we don't have authority to change
> that.  Only GNU management does.

RMS's email to the new maintainers on Thu, 9 Feb 2012 14:43:14 -0500 used 
the work "maintainer", not "steward"; "steward" was something we invented.

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Joseph S. Myers
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