Re: Assembly Digest, Vol 6, Issue 19

Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 17:31:35 +0200 From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo(a)gnu.org&gt; Subject: Re: New assembly member To: Jack Hill <jackhill(a)jackhill.us&gt; Cc: Mark Wielaard <mjw(a)gnu.org&gt;, assembly(a)lists.gnu.tools Message-ID: <87r1jcevc8.fsf(a)gnu.org&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hi, Jack Hill <jackhill(a)jackhill.us&gt; 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