Mark Wielaard writes:
>> There is no such thing as a FSF steward, GNU maintainers are appointed >> by RMS/GAC. The FSF has no say in the topic. You've keept >> misrepresenting this over and over again. > > This is just a legal technicallity. The FSF has oversight > responsibility over the GNU project. That means that the FSF needs to > determine that GNU maintainers operate in a manner consistent with > FSF's exempt purposes, have the needed expertise and that their > activities can be monitored by the FSF board. So GNU Maintainers and > Steering committees are technically appointed by the FSF (previously > RMS when he was FSF president and board member) as stewards of GNU > packages. Basically GNU maintainers serve at the pleasure of the FSF. This is absolutely false. As a member of the package evaluation team and as an Assistant GNUissance (maintain...@gnu.org), I have personally been involved in many appointments of new maintainers at every step of the process, from first contact with GNU through to post-appointment bureaucracy and occasional check-ins. I also have the authority to appoint new maintainers of existing packages myself (only Richard can appoint maintainers of new packages). In fact, I personally appointed some new co-maintainers of Guix back in September, two weeks *after* Richard resigned as president of the FSF, which Ludovic can confirm. I can categorically say that the FSF is not involved whatsoever in the appointment of new maintainers. Please do not spread misinformation about the GNU project. -- -brandon ps - To correct Alfred: the GAC is also not involved in the appointment of maintainers (unless Richard were to ask them for advice in specific cases).
