Re: Meeting Minutes - Office Hours for CTI - 2026-09-18

[Joseph Myers via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>]

On Tue, 22 Sep 2026, Andrea Pinski wrote:

> So there was no consensus on the community members except for the ones
> who were at the meeting?

It makes a lot more sense to work out a coherent list of mailing list 
names (this is about the names, the actual set of lists has already been 
discussed on libc-alpha based on a proposal we made at an earlier stage) 
in a small group rather than bikeshedding naming in a long thread on a 
large mailing list.

> Also why NOT use a forge for patches instead of pushing for mailing lists?

There are plenty of uses for discussions not associated with a particular 
patch.  A forge might be a replacement for patchwork, but not for mailing 
lists.

> Also why NOT just one email list?  Why 6 mailing lists?
> What is the need for glibc-stable?

We already discussed the set of mailing lists on libc-alpha in May / June.  
Based on that discussion, we concluded that libc-stable was of use 
separately from the main development list, but that libc-locales and 
glibc-bugs-regex should be closed.  There was a further opportunity for 
discussion of the closure of those two lists, which I don't think saw any 
objections.

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Joseph S. Myers
josmyers@redhat.com