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Jonathan Corbet
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On the radar: moving the GNU C Library to Linux Foundation hosting.
The whole issue of moving the GNU toolchain projects out of Sourceware and into an LF project was covered here a year ago:
https://lwn.net/Articles/908638/
Since then it has been mostly quiet. Now, though, there seems to be a move afoot to actually make the move for glibc. It is hard to say for sure, since (as seems to be typical), the discussion is being held entirely behind closed doors, though it has now been pushed onto the glibc-alpha list:
https://lwn.net/ml/libc-alpha/orsf805tyf.fsf@lxoliva.fsfla.org/
I do not think that having the LF handle this infrastructure is necessarily a bad idea; the people there are (seriously) good and it has been hugely beneficial to the kernel project. But the handling of the idea remains horrible; it looks like a hostile takeover and could do real damage to the community.
The whole issue of moving the GNU toolchain projects out of Sourceware and into an LF project was covered here a year ago:
https://lwn.net/Articles/908638/
Since then it has been mostly quiet. Now, though, there seems to be a move afoot to actually make the move for glibc. It is hard to say for sure, since (as seems to be typical), the discussion is being held entirely behind closed doors, though it has now been pushed onto the glibc-alpha list:
https://lwn.net/ml/libc-alpha/orsf805tyf.fsf@lxoliva.fsfla.org/
I do not think that having the LF handle this infrastructure is necessarily a bad idea; the people there are (seriously) good and it has been hugely beneficial to the kernel project. But the handling of the idea remains horrible; it looks like a hostile takeover and could do real damage to the community.
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