From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gnu.wildebeest.org (gnu.wildebeest.org [45.83.234.184]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D6CDA3857719 for ; Mon, 15 May 2023 19:00:01 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 sourceware.org D6CDA3857719 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=klomp.org Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=klomp.org Received: from r6.localdomain (82-217-174-174.cable.dynamic.v4.ziggo.nl [82.217.174.174]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ADH-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gnu.wildebeest.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8E453313ACAF; Mon, 15 May 2023 21:00:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: by r6.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2FF22340035; Mon, 15 May 2023 21:00:00 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: Subject: Re: Sourceware joins Software Freedom Conservancy From: Mark Wielaard To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 21:00:00 +0200 In-Reply-To: <83353x1lkr.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20230515181812.GO11203@gnu.wildebeest.org> <83353x1lkr.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.48.1 (3.48.1-1.fc38) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3028.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,JMQ_SPF_NEUTRAL,KAM_DMARC_STATUS,KAM_SHORT,RCVD_IN_BARRACUDACENTRAL,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,TXREP,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: Hi Eli, On Mon, 2023-05-15 at 21:44 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 20:18:12 +0200 > > From: Mark Wielaard > >=20 > > https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/may/15/sourceware-joins-sfc/ > >=20 > > After various discussions and lots of positive feedback [1] [2] [3] > > [4] > > Software Freedom Conservancy and Sourceware proudly announce that > > Sourceware today joins SFC as a member project! >=20 > Any chance you (or someone else "in the know") could explain what > does this mean in practical terms? In practical terms it just means that Sourceware is a bit more organized/formalized. > E.g., do any of the addresses and URLs > we've been using for working on GDB will change in any way? They will not. > What about access to the GDB Git repository? That will be the same as before. We will just have more (redundant) backups, like those on sourcehut: https://sr.ht/~sourceware/binutils-gdb/sources > What about development procedures and practices? Etc. etc. This is only about the actual infrastructure services. You as gdb community of course still decide how to use those and what policies your projects uses. > It is a bit strange that such an announcement talks at length about > everything except what the GDB developers and contributors need to > know. Sorry, we were just excited about all the future potential. Hopefully the opportunity to protect the confidence in the long term future of Sourceware is also of interest to the gdb community. See also the newly announced Sourceware Overseers Open Office hours: https://inbox.sourceware.org/overseers/20230515183216.GA11203@gnu.wildebees= t.org/T/#u Cheers, Mark