Meeting Minutes - Office Hours for CTI - 2026-08-28

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Zack,

On Fri, Sep 04, 2026 at 11:17:40AM -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2026, at 10:18 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > We'll have a Sourceware Open Office meeting next Friday at 15:00
> > UTC where we could discuss these ideas. See also the attached
> > calendar invite.
> 
> What I just said about legitimate venues for decision-making on this
> topic applies equally to those opposing the change as to those
> advocating it.  To reiterate: Until the *entire conversation* leading up
> to a decision regarding a potential move is conducted *on the libc-alpha
> mailing list*, no legitimate decision has been made.
> 
> Please stop asking people to discuss this topic in synchronous meetings,
> or in any other venue but libc-alpha.

I would love to have the actual discussion on this list. But we have
had a proposal for over two months with questions and objections sent
to this list which apparently people seem to not want to answer or
discuss on list. So I thought it might be good to have a different
setting where people might feel more comfortable discussing things. As
always I would of course then sent a summary of the meeting to the
list.

It might be that people don't even want to discuss it in such a
synchronous meeting either. But it did work when we setup the
Sourceware Corporate Sponsorship Program. Which was something some
"opponents" of Sourceware said was what was missing. So I was really
happy we did get participation from those people. And I hope it
brought the group closer together. https://sourceware.org/sponsor.html

I would like to get answers and a discussion around the issues Zoë
brought up. And if we won't get them on this list then getting them
through some other avenue seems like a good compromise. But I am
certainly willing to accept that a summary of such a meeting isn't
really what you are asking for. So I do support your request to have
questions on list be answered directly on list before making any
decission.

Cheers,

Mark