On 16/01/20 11:03 pm, Mark Wielaard wrote: > Of course it means something! You are the glibc release manager. > Responsible for the next version of the core of the GNU system. Herding > 50+ hackers, making sure they behave and keep to the agreed upon > schedule and features. We just haven't documented what it means for you > to have all that responsibility. Normally at this point you would > already have been made a maintainer (in GNU terms, you are already in > glibc terms). But glibc is so big that it already has 9 GNU maintainers > (FSF project stewards in glibc terms). What needs to happen imho is > either simply add you as yet another project steward (GNU maintainer) > too, just to make you part of the official GNU project governance. Or > the FSF/GNU should recognize more official positions for people with > rights and responsibilities in the GNU project to make you feel more > empowered.
Thank you for the kind words Mark. I already feel empowered within the glibc community. I've had less of a stake in the GNU project as a whole (other than the fact that the projects I deeply care about are part of it) and while I would love to be more involved (for those reasons), the current structure is not something that aligns with my perception of how Free software should be governed. Siddhesh
