3:31 p.m.
Hi,
Jack Hill <jackhill(a)jackhill.us> skribis:
I think it is confusing who should appear on the Software page. It
currently says "Maintainers of the following projects," but there are
people like me who are on the mailing list, but aren't maintainers for
whom this third step doesn't make sense (except for the introduction
bit, that seems great).
It seems promising to open up discussion of GNU to more project
participants than just the maintainers, but I can understand if that
isn't really what you were hoping for either. Having the website list
be a subset of the mailing list membership definitely makes sense to
me.
I subscribed to the mailing list because I think GNU working together
can bring unique benefits to the world of software, and wanted to help
this happen by bringing energy to the effort. However, I'm also
subscribed to the mailing list so that I can receive the discussions
in my mail rather than having to poll the archives. Between the
website and the mailing list I think we'll need to figure out how to
support people with different levels of engagement.
All this makes a lot of sense to me.
I think we should maintain a list of “participants” (eventually
“members”) and the software page should reflect it. In that list, it
can be useful to distinguish between maintainers and non-maintainers,
mostly as a way to support those different levels of engagement.
Anyhow, a few people subscribed and endorsed the social contract
recently; if your name in this list, please tell whether you’d like to
be listed on the software/people page:
Frank Ch. Eigler
Florian Weimer
Jack Hill
Leo Famulari
(Marius Bakke already answered on IRC)
Ludo’.