Path: dawntreader!gateway From: bmark@us.ibm.com (Mark Brown) Subject: About the glibc steering committee announcement Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 15:50:05 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 78 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: dawntreader lists.gnu.libc.alpha:918 What does the FSF's announcement of a glibc Steering Committee mean, and what will the new GNU C Library Steering Committee be doing? The intent of the steering committee is to address the policy and planning issues of the GNU C Library project. The glibc development and release processes are not changing, and continue to be led by Ulrich Drepper, glibc's General Maintainer. What we want to do is decrease the administrative burden, while allowing current development to go on as it is now. The steering committee's first task is to address licensing issues. Other tasks will include closer coordination with GCC developers on compatibility issues, clarification of nontechnical terminology in the documentation, and maintenance of the glibc web pages at www.gnu.org. The steering committee will be a focus for discussion and decision of policy and planning issues facing the project, and should allow more actual development work to be done by the code maintainers. The steering committee acknowledges and supports the tremendous and continuing work done by the GNU C Library developers past and present, including (but certainly not limited to): the General Maintainer Ulrich Drepper; the specific Platform Maintainers, hurd Roland McGrath/Mark Kettenis ia64 Jes Sorensen/HJ Lu alpha Richard Henderson arm Philip Blundell m68k Andreas Schwab mips Andreas Jaeger/Ralf Baechle powerpc Geoff Keating s390 Martin Schwidefsky sh Kazumoto Kojima/Yutaka Niibe sparc Jakub Jelinek as well as all the skilled volunteers without whom glibc would not be where it is today - here is a list of some of the many people who have worked on glibc. We apologize in advance if we have left someone out, as the community involvement in this project is large and with a long history. In alphabetical order: Miles Bader, Ralf Baechle, Scott Bambrough, Pat Beirne, Philip Blundell, Per Bothner, John C. Bowman, Adam D. Bradley, Martin Buchholz, Michael I. Bushnell, Geoff Clare, Ben Collins, JT Conklin, Ulrich Drepper, Paul Eggert, Cristian Gafton, Michael Glad, Wolfram Gloger, Torbjorn Granlund, Mike Haertel, Bruno Haible, Shinya Hanataka, Isamu Hasegawa, Richard Henderson, Ealan Henis, Miguel de Icaza, Andreas Jaeger, Jakub Jelinek, Geoff Keating, Brendan Kehoe, Mark Kettenis, Kazumoto Kojima, Fila Kolodny, Thorsten Kukuk, Kaz Kylheku, Doug Lea, H.J. Lu, Gordon Matzigkeit, Greg McGary, Roland McGrath, Jason Merrill, Craig Metz, Jim Meyering, David S. Miller, Alan Modra, David Mosberger, Stephen Moshier, Yutaka Niibe, Hans-Peter Nilsson, Eric Norum, Moshe Olshansky, Tom Quinn, Anna Reitman, Matthias Urlichs, Maciej W. Rozycki, Andreas Schwab, Martin Schwidefsky, Joel Sherrill, Franz Sirl, Jes Sorensen, Richard Stallman, Dick Streefland, Ian Lance Taylor, Stig Venaas, Masahide Washizawa, Tim Waugh, Zack Weinberg, Hideaki Yoshifuji, Eric Youngdale, and Abraham Ziv. We on the steering committee hope to be a useful part of the glibc development process, and look forward to a productive partnership with Ulrich Drepper and the other glibc maintainers. In addition to the official mail ID , you can certainly contact us with concerns of a more private nature at my address below. Sincerely, Mark Brown (Chair) bmark@us.ibm.com Paul Eggert Andreas Jaeger Jakub Jelinek Roland McGrath Andreas Schwab -- Mark S. Brown bmark@us.ibm.com Senior Technical Staff Member 512.838.3926 T/L678.3926 Mark Brown/Austin/IBM IBM Corporation, Austin, Texas