On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 6:19 PM Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > > Hi Alfred, > > a...@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) skribis: > > > What GNU maintainers agree to is very small, it is only to follow the > > policies that we have. They don't need to go beyond that, which is > > what "uphold" would imply. > > Exactly, that’s the change we’re proposing: members of the project > (maintainers and contributors alike who want to formalize their > affiliation with the project) would “sign” the social contract, meaning > that they commit to upholding the values defined therein. > > As you note, this would be “stronger” than the current situation where > maintainers are not expected do be willing to defend the project’s > values.
I also think that stronger commitment from maintainers would actually engage them more in the project. Cheers, Carlos.
