Who controls glibc?

Posted May 7, 2018 21:23 UTC (Mon) by andresfreund (subscriber, #69562)
In reply to: Who controls glibc? by mjg59
Parent article: Who controls glibc?

I find the joke unfortunate *in that context* and I'd vote for removing it (if I had a vote). Even though I find the global gag rule abhorrent.

But the governance implications are the really concerning thing for me. Allowing RMS to come in and make calls over the actual maintainers' objections on random small things isn't healthy. I think there's cases where non-majority calls could be reasonable, but I utterly fail to see how that could be a case of hat. It's quite the pattern over time and projects too.

Who controls glibc?

Posted May 8, 2018 4:21 UTC (Tue) by warrax (subscriber, #103205) [Link]

> Allowing RMS to come in and make calls over the actual maintainers' objections on random small things isn't healthy.

Yes, this struck me as being a pretty absurd style of "leadership".

RMS even says (paraphrased) "I'm usually very hands-off, but THIS... THIS is where I draw the line" on a completely innocuous change which has absolutely no impact on the technical content of the manual.

(Not that this is remotely any sort of existential crisis for glibc as some have claimed.)