On Fri, 2021-03-26 at 20:51 +0000, Jonathan Wakely via Gcc wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, 20:03 Nathan Sidwell, <nat...@acm.org> wrote: > > > > > Dear members of the GCC Steering Committee (SC), I ask you to > > remove > > Richard > > Stallman (RMS) from the SC, or, should you chose not to do so, make > > a > > clear > > statement as to why he remains. > > > > I second Nathan's request, and agree with everything he said.
To any observers seeing this email unfamiliar with the project, I wanted to note that Jonathan is currently one of the most prolific contributors to GCC, showing up as #2 on this list for commit count to GCC over the last year, with 590 commits: https://www.openhub.net/p/gcc/contributors?query=&time_span=&sort=twelve_month_commits [1] I too second Nathan's request, and agree with what he said. (Nathan shows up as #7 on that list, and Marek who has also replied whilst I've been writing this shows up as #9; I'm #11 on that list). > It's important for GCC today, and for potential future contributors. Agreed. I own an autographed copy of RMS's book from when I used to look up to him, but, frankly, I think the cause of Free Software would have been helped greatly by him taking retirement from the FSF/GNU at least a decade ago. I should note that I'm writing this in a personal capacity, not on behalf of Red Hat, though FWIW Red Hat has said the following on the matter of RMS's return to the FSF board: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-statement-about-richard-stallmans-return-free-software-foundation-board Now to get back to fixing bugs... Dave [1] actually the 12 month period ending 2 months ago, since that was the last time the project was rescanned by openhub
