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The GNU C Library Steering Committee disbands

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Of the new informal triumvirate (Roland McGrath, Joseph Myers, and Carlos O'Donell), one of them, Myers, is also a maintainer of eglibc (http://www.eglibc.org/), which has expressed a long-term interest in folding back into glibc if maintainer policies permit their goals to be accomplished via that route. Any ideas if that's going to happen?

Myers made another post[1] discussing that. Stripping away the diplomacy, the answer looks like "probably mostly".

Considering the overall circumstances, any other outcome would seem unlikely. EGLIBC only existed because of Drepper's attitudes towards embedded systems.

[1] http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-03/msg01047.html

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3761476

"The direction of the project will now be governed more informally by a team led by the current maintainers."

Soooo...basically Drepper calls the shots more officially rather than de facto?

Seeing him shoot people down has been an illicit pleasure of mine for years.

Quoth the article: "Ulrich Drepper, who, according to the glibc web site, has had "overall responsibility for maintenance and development" of the project up until now, is absent from this list."

There has been a fair amount of... jumping for joy in my google plus feed over this.

Come work at Goldman-Sachs, you can watch him shoot down people on the internal mailing lists instead.

Does he have a similar arrangement with them as he had with Red Hat, or is he more directly involved in what the firm does?

I gather this is actually a formalization of existing reality. After Drepper left Red Hat late last year and glibc stopped being his day job, his dictatorial control effectively came to an end. Reviewing the list archives, community involvement has picked way up in the last few months.

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