On 16/01/20 11:34 pm, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > Just because you are a GNU maintainer, does not mean that you are part > of any governance structure of the GNU project. In general, the GNU > project favors _less_ maintainers, because multiple ones makes it a > hassle to discuss matters of importance and take decisions -- this can > specifically be seen in glibc.
I see that as glibc having been able to stand up to the GNU project (and that's an unfortunate dichotomy) thanks to more actual contributors being maintainers. > It is quite unfortunate that some glibc maintainers and contributors > have created this misunderstanding and continue to cause confusion on > how GNU projects are maintained by calling GNU maintainers for "FSF > stewards". They are GNU maintainers, so one should call them that. I believe this is because we want a way to recognize regular contributors who are heavily involved in project maintenance. We call them maintainers[1], so I suppose FSF stewards may be the way to differentiate them from maintainers. There may be a historical context that I am not aware about. Siddhesh
