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[2001:8b0:bf73:93f7::51bb:e332]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a640c23a62f3a-c1fd4537761sm554071066b.52.2026.08.03.06.23.47 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:23:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by digraph.polyomino.org.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.98.2) (envelope-from ) id 1wqsdu-00000000rfV-3qgI; Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:23:46 +0000 Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2026 13:23:46 +0000 (UTC) From: Joseph Myers To: Alejandro Colomar cc: Sam James , "G. Branden Robinson" , linux-man@vger.kernel.org, Keith Bostic , Mark Harris , Nevin Liber , JeanHeyd Meneide , Christopher Bazley , "Serge E. Hallyn" , Iker Pedrosa , "Evgeny Grin (Karlson2k)" , Kees Cook , bug-gnulib@gnu.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org, Douglas McIlroy Subject: Re: on the irresponsibility of pursuing C language reform In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <784288e704183a4297aeaa3d13af8edab18bc1ea.1785532392.git.alx@kernel.org> <20260731215122.4p4aepsbgeoibx74@illithid> <87a4r6es6k.fsf@gentoo.org> <87y0epdhxp.fsf@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Sat, 1 Aug 2026, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > It's certainly a privileged position. Just like maintainer of GCC, or > of Clang, or any other core project of most systems. I acknowledge > this, and I believe I've acknowledged this before, implicitly and > explicitly. Subsystem maintainers in glibc may choose to assume consensus for their own changes in that subsystem *in the absence of evidence to the contrary*. If it becomes clear that in fact there is not consensus for such a change, they still need to revert it and go through the community process to figure out what has consensus instead (or if the community is unable to reach consensus, go to a vote of the GNU maintainers for glibc, but such a vote should be very rare); being a subsystem maintainer is just a shortcut and a signal of recognized expertise in that subsystem, not a mechanism to override consensus. -- Joseph S. Myers josmyers@redhat.com