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

[Joseph Myers]

On Tue, 8 Sep 2026, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> Our current voluntary hosting arrangements listen to and participate in
> the community.  If we want to try something out, they're normally happy
> to lend us a hand and make it happen.
> 
> A professional hosting arrangement will involve a professional
> relationship, in which only designated parties will be able to submit
> requests in order to have them as much as listened to.
> 
> This is not AT ALL in the best interest of the community.

As far as possible, configuration changes for production infrastructure 
*should* be slow and carefully considered, rather than just happening 
because one community member thought a change was a good idea and one 
hosting person then implemented it, possibly disrupting things for other 
people, deviating from a previous community consensus or introducing a 
security vulnerability.

The current hosting arrangements also have their own variant of the 
"synchronous meeting" problem - unless you happen to be on #overseers at 
the time a particular change gets suggested, discussed and implemented, 
you never know about the change or have a chance to give input until you 
see it break something.  I think a slower, more formal system can *also* 
have better community input than at present by moving as many discussions 
of hosting changes as possible to libc-alpha - after, of course, there is 
better isolation of infrastructure so it's genuinely possible for glibc to 
decide what's wanted independently of other projects currently hosted on 
the same system.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
josmyers@redhat.com