Roland McGrath - glibc steering committee dissolving (original) (raw)

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• From: Roland McGrath
• To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
• Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:53:05 -0700 (PDT)
• Subject: glibc steering committee dissolving

Since 2001, glibc development has been overseen by the GNU C Library Steering Committee. With the recent reinvigoration of volunteer efforts, the community of developers is now able to govern itself. Therefore, the Steering Committee has decided unanimously to dissolve. The direction and policies of the project will now be governed directly by the consensus of the people active in glibc development. While actual development and maintenance work is shared among a large and ever-shifting set of people and everyone contributing that work now continues as they always have, the direct responsibilities of GNU Project maintainership for the C Library will be taken on by a smaller team led by Joseph Myers, Carlos O'Donell, and Roland McGrath. Joseph, Carlos, and others will speak more about the new situation in the coming days.

On a personal note, I would like to recall where we've been and express my apprecation for everyone who has got us to where we are. I started writing the GNU C Library in 1987, nearly 25 years ago. A great many people have contributed to developing and maintaining it over the years. I would especially like to thank those whose hard work took the project from its early days to become the widely-used library it is today, most notably Ulrich Drepper, H.J. Lu, and Jakub Jelinek. Nobody has done more than they to make glibc the essential component of many free systems that it has become. I'm also very grateful to my fellow members of the Steering Committee for contributing their wisdom to help keep the project going over the last decade and more. Finally, these happy new circumstances would not be possible without those who have been dedicated to strengthening the project more recently, particularly Joseph Myers, Carlos O'Donell, and Ryan Arnold. Everyone who helps on glibc today and everyone who has contributed in the past has my greatest appreciation and thanks. I'm confident that we'll keep pulling together to improve glibc and serve its users well for many more years to come.

Thanks, Roland