Sorry, my first reaction to latest SC announcements was to write immediately. But I took time to think more about the situation (now seing a discussion about "Non-Autopoiesis Maintainers" I am more convinced in my decision). Here is my thoughts. I apologize in advance if somebody feel offended by what I wrote. I really have no such intentions.
Looking at the last SC announcement, it is probably easy to get the impression that SC is shrunk to David Edelsohn, may be Mark Mitchell and Gerald Pfeifer. I see that some people already associate SC only with David or see him as a single conductor to/from SC (David, nothing personal. You are very active and that is good). But where are the other members. By the way this expression is contradict with the original SC goal creation. Could you please give us more explanation about your decisions. Could you please be more open in your work. It is natural. We all work on open source project. Some GCC developers don't follow all GCC development and it would be nice to have an explanation even for trivial cases of appointments. For example, about latest appointments of Diego and Ian as GWP. They are good guys but I don't see Diego actively working on RTL or Ian actively working on tree-SSA. I understand we need more maintainers and I know others actively working guys (e.g. Paolo Bonzini on rtl or Jan on upper level). May be you approached them and they rejected to be maintainers. We don't know because there is no explanation. Without this it looks like a political decision. Google became active in gcc development and I am sure they will be more active looking at how they are hunting for good GCC developers for now. Nothing wrong to appoint someone from Google to SC to have a better balance of power. That was major motivation of SC creation. If somebody from SC does not follow gcc development and community for a long time, could you please be more active or think about the leaving position. Nothing is wrong with that. Almost ten years have been gone since SC creation. Many things have been changed. Sorry, I hope this critics (and I know that is not only mine opinion) is in interests of SC and GCC community. Vlad
