Sourceware infrastructure updates for Q2 2026

Sourceware infrastructure updates for Q2 2026

[Mark Wielaard]

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% has 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 31th of August,
  and so is the registration for attendance.
  https://inbox.sourceware.org/afyLSlHyggg0_294@kam.mff.cuni.cz

  - The Linux Plumbers Conference
  Happens to be also 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+Og@mail.gmail.com/

= Sourceware @ Conservancy Year Three

  On May 15th Sourceware completed the thirth 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/20260516205232.GD1219@gnu.wildebeest.org

= 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 payed 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/20260412192052.GA15385@gnu.wildebeest.org
  One based on the financial results of 2025/2056
  https://inbox.sourceware.org/20260510223754.GR1219@gnu.wildebeest.org
  And one based on the initial proposal from the Sourceware PLC
  https://inbox.sourceware.org/20260614225910.GA14303@gnu.wildebeest.org

  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 sponsor@sourceware.org

  - 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 plc@sourceware.org.

  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