CTI - Making a decision for glibc.
Adhemerval Zanella Netto
adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org
Fri Jan 30 13:15:33 GMT 2026
On 28/01/26 19:12, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On 2026-01-28 16:45, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> 1. It's my impression that there are a small number of people (Carlos
>> O'Donell, David Edelsohn, Joseph Myers, and possibly *no one else*)
>> who feel strongly that glibc should move off of sourceware.org, and
>> *everyone else* with a stake in the matter is somewhere on a spectrum
>> between neutral and a strong belief that glibc *shouldn't* move, or
>> at least, should not move to infrastructure hosted by the Linux
>> Foundation.
>
> If you're naming names it's Carlos O'Donell, David Edelsohn, Joseph Myers, Siddhesh Poyarekar, Florian Weimer, Maxim Kuvyrkov, Jeff Law and Andreas Huettel who have vocally supported the move in this thread, while many others (who I hope will chime in too) who contribute on a day to day basis, have expressed support offline in the past. Your base characterization of the situation is flawed I'm afraid.
You can include me on this list, although I am not a GNU maintainer. As I noted
in earlier email we can make the CTI migration as an experiment, evaluate, and
rollback if it does not work with the expected quality or requisites.
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