Re: RMS removed from the GCC Steering Committee

[Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 4 Apr 2021, 00:46 Ian Lance Taylor via Gcc, <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 10:31 AM Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@tesio.it> wrote:
> >
> > But apparently you cannot decide which US-corporation should be thrown.
> > (indeed US-corporations hold the vast majoirity of SC heads, right now).
>

As it clearly says on the steering committee page, appointments are
personal, not based on employer. One SC members just moved job but didn't
lose his SC position, because it's him and not his employer who is on the
committee.


> I don't understand this argument.  If we remove everybody from the
> committee, then it will be more balanced in some sense, but there
> won't be anybody on it.  If you want a more balanced committee, then
> at some point you have to talk about adding people.
>
> And I do think it would make sense to add more people to the
> committee.  Any suggestions?  They should of course be people
> reasonably familiar with GCC and with free software, and with
> compilers and software development tools.



And if you don't allow anybody from big US or German corporations, you're
going to have to keep kicking experienced people off the committee and
replacing them with inexperienced people. That's because experienced,
dedicated contributors tend to get hired to keep working on the project. I
was an unpaid volunteer and maintainer for years before I got hired to work
on GCC. Was I doing good work at first, then became a pawn of evil
business? No, because your arguments are silly (and I don't even think
they're in good faith, I think you're just being a Concern Troll because
you're upset about the removal of RMS).