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The GNU C Library Steering Committee disbands

73 points by gbaygon 15y ago

pagekalisedown 15y ago
"The direction of the project will now be governed more informally by a team led by the current maintainers."
- heretohelp 15y ago
  Soooo...basically Drepper calls the shots more officially rather than de facto? Seeing him shoot people down has been an illicit pleasure of mine for years.
  - madmoose 15y ago
    Quoth the article: "Ulrich Drepper, who, according to the glibc web site, has had "overall responsibility for maintenance and development" of the project up until now, is absent from this list."
    - krakensden 15y ago
      There has been a fair amount of... jumping for joy in my google plus feed over this.
  - jnsquire 15y ago
    Come work at Goldman-Sachs, you can watch him shoot down people on the internal mailing lists instead.
    - heretohelp 15y ago
      Does he have a similar arrangement with them as he had with Red Hat, or is he more directly involved in what the firm does?
nknight 15y ago
I gather this is actually a formalization of existing reality. After Drepper left Red Hat late last year and glibc stopped being his day job, his dictatorial control effectively came to an end. Reviewing the list archives, community involvement has picked way up in the last few months.
KonradKlause 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3761476 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3761476
_delirium 15y ago
Of the new informal triumvirate (Roland McGrath, Joseph Myers, and Carlos O'Donell), one of them, Myers, is also a maintainer of eglibc (http://www.eglibc.org/ http://www.eglibc.org/), which has expressed a long-term interest in folding back into glibc if maintainer policies permit their goals to be accomplished via that route. Any ideas if that's going to happen?
- nknight 15y ago
  Myers made another post[1] discussing that. Stripping away the diplomacy, the answer looks like "probably mostly". Considering the overall circumstances, any other outcome would seem unlikely. EGLIBC only existed because of Drepper's attitudes towards embedded systems. [1] http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-03/msg01047.html http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-03/msg01047.html

73 points by gbaygon 15y ago

pagekalisedown 15y ago

"The direction of the project will now be governed more informally by a team led by the current maintainers."

heretohelp 15y ago
Soooo...basically Drepper calls the shots more officially rather than de facto? Seeing him shoot people down has been an illicit pleasure of mine for years.
- madmoose 15y ago
  Quoth the article: "Ulrich Drepper, who, according to the glibc web site, has had "overall responsibility for maintenance and development" of the project up until now, is absent from this list."
  - krakensden 15y ago
    There has been a fair amount of... jumping for joy in my google plus feed over this.
- jnsquire 15y ago
  Come work at Goldman-Sachs, you can watch him shoot down people on the internal mailing lists instead.
  - heretohelp 15y ago
    Does he have a similar arrangement with them as he had with Red Hat, or is he more directly involved in what the firm does?

nknight 15y ago

I gather this is actually a formalization of existing reality. After Drepper left Red Hat late last year and glibc stopped being his day job, his dictatorial control effectively came to an end. Reviewing the list archives, community involvement has picked way up in the last few months.

KonradKlause 15y ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3761476 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3761476

_delirium 15y ago

Of the new informal triumvirate (Roland McGrath, Joseph Myers, and Carlos O'Donell), one of them, Myers, is also a maintainer of eglibc (http://www.eglibc.org/ http://www.eglibc.org/), which has expressed a long-term interest in folding back into glibc if maintainer policies permit their goals to be accomplished via that route. Any ideas if that's going to happen?

nknight 15y ago
Myers made another post[1] discussing that. Stripping away the diplomacy, the answer looks like "probably mostly". Considering the overall circumstances, any other outcome would seem unlikely. EGLIBC only existed because of Drepper's attitudes towards embedded systems. [1] http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-03/msg01047.html http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-03/msg01047.html