Mark Wielaard writes: > Hi all, > > After several months since our statement that it is time for GNU > maintainers to collectively decide about the organization of the > project, we are finally ready for a first small step towards that. > > There was a bit of push back that left us no choice than to setup our > own space for this project. See https://wiki.gnu.tools/ Tools for GNU > maintainers by GNU maintainers. > > But after lots and lots of discussions, a DRAFT proposal and a feedback > process [*] we finally have: https://wiki.gnu.tools/gnu:social-contract > > The goal of the GNU Social Contract is to state the core values GNU > maintainers who have endorsed it are committed to uphold. It is both > an agreement among us, GNU contributors, and a pledge to the broader > free software community.
Thank you all for working on this. > If you are a GNU maintainer and do support this initiative please reply > to this email, Reply-To set, (preferably signed with your OpenPGP key) > stating: > > I, maintainer of package X, endorse version 1.0 of the GNU > Social Contract, available at > <https://wiki.gnu.tools/gnu:social-contract>. > > You will then be listed here: > <https://wiki.gnu.tools/gnu:social-contract-endorsement> I, a maintainer of GNU Mes and GNU LilyPond and a developer on GNU Guix and GNU 8sync, endorse version 1.0 of the GNU Social Contract, available at <https://wiki.gnu.tools/gnu:social-contract>. > You might have seen that this initiative is not supported by Richard > Stallman. Nevertheless, we consider it a legitimate action by and for > GNU maintainers to collectively define the core values we believe GNU > stands for. Of course it is a personal choice for every one of us whether or not to uphold these basic GNU values. I know that GNU maintainers are not required to adhere or uphold even any free software values and I must say that was pretty shocked when I learnt that, but it makes me happy to be able to make this commitment of freedom towards our users. Greetings, janneke -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar® http://AvatarAcademy.com