> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 at 5:45 AM > From: "Joseph Myers" <jos...@codesourcery.com> > To: "JeanHeyd Meneide" <phdoftheho...@gmail.com> > Cc: "GCC Development" <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>, "Nathan Sidwell" <nat...@acm.org> > Subject: Re: Remove RMS from the GCC Steering Committee > > On Tue, 30 Mar 2021, JeanHeyd Meneide via Gcc wrote: > > > So, it boils down to this for me: either GCC is a place where all > > contributions are welcome, or GCC is a place of hypocrisy, where > > contributions are welcome except when Stallman (or someone else in a > > position of power) lobbies a non-technical, non-factual argument > > against you and jumps from their high tower to slam down on > > rank-and-file contributors and participants. You cannot have it both > > ways. > > All contributions are welcome. One of the key functions of the SC is > actually saying no to RMS. > > Central FSF or GNU project infrastructure is not used in developing GCC; > gcc.gnu.org is entirely independent of central FSF or GNU infrastructure > such as savannah. So RMS has no control over policies applied to GCC > mailing lists, and any influence he might apply to the moderation of lists > hosted on lists.gnu.org does not apply here. (Although GCC releases are > uploaded to ftp.gnu.org, which is central GNU infrastructure, they are > also available at https://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/releases/ .) He has an > ordinary restricted user account on gcc.gnu.org giving the same access to > push commits as most committers; he does not have shell or administrative > access.
People are inflating the power or control he actually has. I have to say that at no time has Stallman dictated on any of my work. Unlike the animosity that has been demonstrated by Ludovic Courtès in October 2019, by sending a message disguised to look like an official Gnu Directive to Gnu Maintainers. A fashionable tool for excommunicating those he find problematic due to their pesky different points of view. > -- > Joseph S. Myers > jos...@codesourcery.com >
