Re: Toolchain Infrastructure project statement of support

Siddhesh Poyarekar
2022-10-24T01:51:35Z

On 2022-10-23 13:09, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
>> [...] To be specific, gcc steering committee and glibc FSF stewards
>> have announced the decision for their projects [...]
>
> I may be missing something. All I've seen so far were some of the
> leaders of some of the projects being joint signatories to a letter on
> overseers@. As far as I'm aware, that is not how any of these
> projects make or announce **project decisions** with/to their
> respective constituencies.

Fair enough.

>> I am not aware of any opposition from maintainers of libabigail or
>> cygwin or any other active sourceware based project over moving
>> either, but I haven't had any links to those projects, so I may be
>> uninformed.
>
> Indeed. The onus is obviously on the shoulders of the proponents of
> this proposal to convince each sourceware guest project to consent to
> move. If you wish to frame any dissent as "blocking full migration",
> then I'd say the job of convincing everyone just has not been up to
> par. Perhaps it was the wrong goal all along.

Are you saying then that your dissent so far is as maintainer for
systemtap and not as an overseer?

Sid