Re: GTI TAC Meeting Notes 2022-11-09

On 2022-11-09 15:49, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
> I don't know what a "FSF steward" is, exactly.  I have only heard the
> term in the context of GCC and glibc, and always assumed it was a
> peculiar way to refer to the GNU maintainers.

In fact I think it's specifically in the context of glibc[1], I don't 
think other projects use the "FSF Stewards" or "Project Stewards" terms. 
  It was probably in the aftermath of the transition of the community 
around 2011 where the project moved to a consensus based development 
model and AFAICT the then maintainers wanted to broaden who they called 
"maintainers".  gcc is not the only project with a colorful history in 
that regard :)

So yes, FSF Steward does refer to GNU maintainers.

> GNU maintainership is certainly well defined, both in scope and
> extension.
> 
> The GNU maintainers are appointed by the GNU Project, and at the time of
> being appointed they agree to, among several other things, apply the GNU
> policies, be the responsibles for the package GNU-wide, and notify GNU
> if at some point they can't or dont want to maintain the package
> anymore.
> 
> The official GNU maintainers are listed in the records in fencepost (not
> in savannah) and for the four toolchain projects they are, as of today:

<snip>

Yes, these are precisely the people who will be making decisions on 
behalf of and in the interest of their respective projects.

Thanks,
Sid

[1] 
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/MAINTAINERS#Project_stewards_.28GNU_package_maintainers.29