CTI - Making a decision for glibc.

Yury Khrustalev yury.khrustalev@arm.com
Fri Jan 30 16:22:47 GMT 2026


On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 11:15:28AM -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> tl;dr The GNU Maintainers for the GNU C Library (glibc) plan to move
> core services to infrastructure hosted by the Core Toolchain
> Infrastructure (CTI) project. As maintainers for the project we do this
> to meet the present and future needs of glibc and the GNU Toolchain. We
> want secure, robust, and sustainable infrastructure, balanced against
> the needs of developers and the community to collaborate and innovate,
> with reliable funding to support the infrastructure in the long term.

I think that this is a move in the right direction. A lot of questions
and concerns have been raised, rightfully so, but I believe that we
should be moving ahead to facilitate work of the ever growing community.
There will never be a perfect solution.

> ...

> Action plan:
> 
>  * Weekly office hours for CTI to provide an open space for discussion
>    of infrastructure improvements
> 
>  * Work with LF IT to update the CY24 statement of work and discuss with
>    the glibc developers
> 
>  * Work towards migrating glibc git and mailing lists as first priority
>    since these match our security priorities.

I'm glad that we move glibc first. I think it's a good choice.

Thanks,
Yury



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