"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> writes:
>> Agree. And that goes both ways. I think there's people that should >> be there and isn't. More specifically, I think there should be >> representation of the civilized world (glibc, musl, FreeBSD, NetBSD, >> OpenBSD, and POSIX). > > The Austin Group (POSIX, more or less) liaises with WG14 already. You > can find evidence of this in their teleconference minutes. > > As for the others, have you tried reaching out to principals of these > libcs and asking them to participate? Are you *sure* they aren't > already? I think Joseph Myers is both a GCC committer and a WG14 > member. > > I grant there's a distinction in emphasis between compiler vendors and > standard library vendors. But TTBOMK it's not the case that members of > the Free Software C ecosystem are wholly unrepresented. Lots of glibc and Gnulib people participate in The Austin Group. It is fairly easy to participate there, you just need to request an account on the bug tracker. However, contributing to WG14 seems to require many readings and joining your National Body (ANSI, in the case of a U.S. resident, which I am) [1]. That seems like a chore, but maybe I am just lazy. Collin [1] https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/contributing.html
