Sourceware infrastructure community updates for Q2 2026 Keep Sourceware independent, worry-free and friendly, sustain our fiscal sponsor https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer or support OSUOSL to host projects like ours https://osuosl.org/donate
Donate directly to Sourceware https://sourceware.org/donate.html Or check out our Corporate Sponsorship Levels & Benefits https://sourceware.org/sponsor.html Every quarter we provide a summary of news about Sourceware and roadmap updates https://sourceware.org/sourceware-25-roadmap.html - Sourceware Survey 2026 - Conferences, FOSSY, Cauldron, Plumbers - Sourceware @ Conservancy Year Three - Budget and Funding 2026/2027 - Signed-commit census leaderboard - Sourceware Organization, Contact and Open Office hours = Sourceware Survey 2026 At the start of the quarter the yearly Sourceware Survey was held to get to know who our users are, which hosted projects they feel part of, what services they rely on and what the priorities should be for our budget and new initiatives. The survey ran from 20 March to 3 April. There were 84 responses. Which amounts to ~20% of "active developers", depending how you define that (there are ~400 people with ssh/gitolite push access, if you ignore those that have been explicitly disabled because of non-activity). Of those that responded ~70% are active committers, ~60% have a bugzilla account, ~31% edit wikis, ~30% have editbugs rights, ~26% has a forge account, 20% has a patchwork account, ~12% are bugzilla admins and ~13% are admins/list moderators. Full results can be found at https://sourceware.org/survey-2026 = Conferences, FOSSY, Cauldron, Plumbers - FOSSY 2026 toolchain track North America https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/fossy2026 GNU Toolchain and friends meeting in Vancouver, Canada August 6-9 2026 at the University of British Columbia. The toolchain track is on Thursday and Friday and will feature talks on Kernel Control Flow Integrity (KCFI) for GCC, Algol 68, Cobol, Picolibc, SFrame V3, Bootstrappable Builds, pkgconf 3.0, the Plan 9 toolchain and the GCC Runtime Library Exception. https://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/ - GNU Tools Cauldron 2026 https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cauldron2026 October 2-4, Prague, Czech Republic The Call for Proposals is now open, closing Monday 31st of August, and so is the registration for attendance. https://inbox.sourceware.org/[email protected] - The Linux Plumbers Conference Happens to also be in Prague, starting right after Cauldron, from Monday 5th to Wednesday 7th of October. The Toolchains Track Submissions close: 24 July 2026 https://inbox.sourceware.org/CAKwvOdkaE7nHQbMRKBHmY6jE326bx=czi8yel2qypsoj3pq...@mail.gmail.com/ = Sourceware @ Conservancy Year Three On May 15th Sourceware completed the third full year as a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy. Conservancy has helped us turn from a purely volunteer into a professional organization with a Project Leadership Committee, monthly open office hours, multiple hardware services partners, expanded services, and a more diverse funding model that allows us to hold assets and enter into official contracts with other organizations. The annual report contains updates on Communications, Community Events and Survey, Services and Forge Developments, Cyber Security, Policies, and Census Updates, Datacenter Migrations and the VM-First Transition, Finances and In-Kind Support, Next Year Plans and Project Leadership Committee Updates. https://inbox.sourceware.org/[email protected] = Budget and Funding 2026/2027, We ended the previous year with the successful completion of our infrastructure hardware refresh cycle. Doubling of individual donations and increased (corporate) "in-kind" support for hosting and networking support. For the 2026/2027 fiscal year, we would like to shift our budget focus to spend less on "iron" and more on "services and people". We would like to finally provide financial support/compensation to our partner OSUOSL. Hire paid staff/consultants to help with services upgrades and VM migrations. And look into funding upstream Forgejo improvements. We had three community budget discussions. One based on the Sourceware Survey results https://inbox.sourceware.org/[email protected] One based on the financial results of 2025/2026 https://inbox.sourceware.org/[email protected] And one based on the initial proposal from the Sourceware PLC https://inbox.sourceware.org/[email protected] The Sourceware PLC reviewed all feedback and we now have: - https://sourceware.org/donate.html The individual donation page. Please donate if you haven't yet. Every contribution makes a difference. - https://sourceware.org/sponsor.html The corporate sponsorship page. With three different tiers. If your company would like to become a financial sponsor, or become a resource partner please contact us at [email protected] - https://sourceware.org/financials.html Sourceware financials, budget and funding targets for 2026/2027. = Signed-commit census leaderboard How is your project doing on signed commits? analyzing branch HEAD since 2026-01-01 cygwin-calm 33 commits 33 signed 100% 1 committers 1 signers 100% cygwin-setup 33 commits 33 signed 100% 2 committers 2 signers 100% profiledb 5 commits 5 signed 100% 1 committers 1 signers 100% annobin 182 commits 181 signed 99% 2 committers 1 signers 50% bunsen 217 commits 205 signed 94% 3 committers 2 signers 66% systemtap 221 commits 175 signed 79% 4 committers 2 signers 50% builder 55 commits 35 signed 63% 2 committers 1 signers 50% elfutils 103 commits 56 signed 54% 4 committers 3 signers 75% gcc 4443 commits 569 signed 12% 172 committers 15 signers 8% newlib-cygwin 184 commits 15 signed 8% 9 committers 1 signers 11% glibc 521 commits 22 signed 4% 27 committers 2 signers 7% binutils-gdb 1978 commits 36 signed 1% 76 committers 8 signers 10% valgrind 408 commits 1 signed 0% 7 committers 1 signers 14% bzip2 8 commits 0 signed 0% 1 committers 0 signers 0% bzip2-tests 2 commits 0 signed 0% 1 committers 0 signers 0% debugedit 14 commits 0 signed 0% 1 committers 0 signers 0% dwz 4 commits 0 signed 0% 1 committers 0 signers 0% forge 7 commits 0 signed 0% 1 committers 0 signers 0% insight 37 commits 0 signed 0% 1 committers 0 signers 0% libabigail 11 commits 0 signed 0% 1 committers 0 signers 0% lvm2 1103 commits 0 signed 0% 9 committers 0 signers 0% = Sourceware Organization, Contact and Open Office hours We can be reached through irc, email and bugzilla https://sourceware.org/mission.html#organization There is also the fediverse for announcements, notices, downtime or temporary network issues https://fosstodon.org/@sourceware Every second Friday of the month is the Sourceware Overseers Open Office hour in #overseers on irc.libera.chat at 15:00 UTC. Please feel free to drop by with any Sourceware service or hosting questions. The PLC https://sourceware.org/mission.html#plc currently consists of 7 members. The mandatory minimum number of Members is 4. And no more than 2 Members may be Financially-Related to the same Entity. If you are interested in joining the PLC please read the https://sourceware.org/Conservancy-Sourceware-FSA.pdf Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement, the Conflict of Interest Policy https://sfconservancy.org/projects/policies/conflict-of-interest-policy.html and contact us at [email protected]. If you rather help with more technical tasks please join the overseers list: https://sourceware.org/mailman/listinfo/overseers Sourceware PLC, Frank Ch. Eigler, Ian Kelling, Ian Lance Taylor, Tom Tromey, Jon Turney, Mark J. Wielaard and Elena Zannoni
