Announcing the GNU Toolchain Infrastructure Project

Posted Sep 28, 2022 14:31 UTC (Wed) by mtaht (subscriber, #11087)
Parent article: Announcing the GNU Toolchain Infrastructure Project

This definitely feels like a corporate takeover attempt.

Announcing the GNU Toolchain Infrastructure Project

Posted Sep 28, 2022 14:44 UTC (Wed) by q_q_p_p (guest, #131113) [Link]

Yeah, especially that LF already doesn't represent linux community interests.

Announcing the GNU Toolchain Infrastructure Project

Posted Sep 28, 2022 14:44 UTC (Wed) by tchernobog (guest, #73595) [Link] (10 responses)

Well, I hope you're not running a Linux kernel if you're so mistrustful, since these are the same guys that make kernel.org work.

I rather think these are people with time and means to ensure the reliability needed by a lot of critical infrastructure for the GNU project.

Announcing the GNU Toolchain Infrastructure Project

Posted Sep 28, 2022 14:58 UTC (Wed) by kilobyte (subscriber, #108024) [Link] (9 responses)

It's about FSF (gnu.org) vs "GNU Assembly" (gnu.tools); the latter revealed themselves at the time of the anti-RMS signature-gathering attack letter.

Announcing the GNU Toolchain Infrastructure Project

Posted Sep 28, 2022 15:33 UTC (Wed) by atai (subscriber, #10977) [Link] (1 responses)

Clearly not; GCC maintainers are working with the SFC

Announcing the GNU Toolchain Infrastructure Project

Posted Sep 28, 2022 18:04 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

There are respected GCC maintainers in both camps, both proposals seem to have at least some approval from the FSF, and the only sad part is how vitriolic the discussion became. I hope that these divisions can be healed; it seems to me that both the SFC and the GTI proposals are workable and neither is a violation of free software principles. None of this has anything to do with past controversies about RMS.

Announcing the GNU Toolchain Infrastructure Project

Posted Sep 28, 2022 19:57 UTC (Wed) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118) [Link] (5 responses)

Fancy domain, no names, questionable content. It looks like another from Pocock's harassment circle (next to debian.day, fsf.community, debian.community etc.)

Announcing the GNU Toolchain Infrastructure Project

Posted Sep 28, 2022 20:47 UTC (Wed) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452) [Link] (2 responses)

> no names

Not true.

There's a "People" <https://gnu.tools/en/people/> link in the navigation bar and basically every single word on that site has a real name attached to it in the site's source repository <https://git.gnu.tools/git/gnu-tools-website> linked from the footer.

Announcing the GNU Toolchain Infrastructure Project

Posted Sep 28, 2022 21:26 UTC (Wed) by dullfire (guest, #111432) [Link] (1 responses)

Kind of surprising that apparently that horse was beat to death only about a year and a half ago (if the sites git logs are to be believed).

Announcing the GNU Toolchain Infrastructure Project

Posted Sep 29, 2022 7:20 UTC (Thu) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452) [Link]

That is not the sort of thing you can infer from a git log from a static web site, is it?

The date you picked is pretty much when it was created.

Announcing the GNU Toolchain Infrastructure Project

Posted Sep 29, 2022 5:39 UTC (Thu) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958) [Link] (1 responses)

pocock surely names names.

Announcing the GNU Toolchain Infrastructure Project

Posted Sep 29, 2022 9:17 UTC (Thu) by ale2018 (guest, #128727) [Link]

Names also appear in their thanks page. One is Carlos O'Donell, the author of the announce.

Announcing the GNU Toolchain Infrastructure Project

Posted Oct 3, 2022 16:24 UTC (Mon) by andrewsh (subscriber, #71043) [Link]

It would be great if you refrained from unsubstantiated accusations of people who asked rms to resign.