Re: Why the "social contract" should not be endorsed

[siddhesh]

On Feb 27, 2020 20:07, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@gotplt.org> wrote:

On 27/02/20 19:23, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Of course your opinion matters a lot! As release master and uploader
> for GNU glibc your opinion is very valuable. I am sorry that through a
> technicality you weren't listed in the maintainers file and so were
> excluded from our direct call for discussion and endorsement. But we
> had to start somewhere. And I hope you did have a chance to discuss
> this with the glibc stewards and other maintainers. We will expand the
> discussions to all GNU volunteers over time. But as you might have
> noticed this list might not be the perfect discussion forum. So we are
> working on something better.

Ah, I do not mind at all that I wasn't contacted about this directly; I
didn't even expect it TBH given that I'm not involved in GNU governance.

To be clear, I remain supportive of the idea behind the social contract and a less centralized gnu governance structure and I appreciate that y'all are doing the thankless task of shaping this.

Siddhesh