Our Mission: Free software, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Sources. Its five year mission, to boldly go where no other free software projects have gone this week.

Commitment to Free Software

Sourceware is a Free Software hosting project for core toolchain and developer tools. Sourceware is maintained by volunteers. Hardware and bandwidth is provided by sponsors. The hosted projects themselves are independent.

It is our goal to offer a worry-free, friendly home for Free Software projects.

Sourceware organization

Sourceware is run by volunteers who can be contacted on the public overseers@sourceware.org mailinglist [inbox].

Or file an issue in the Sourceware Infrastructure bugzilla component.

There is also an irc channel #overseers on irc.libera.chat. Overseers Open Office hours take place in the same irc channel every second Friday of the month at UTC 16:00.

Most projects hosted on Sourceware have their own admins managing project specific resources.

For issues with your sourceware, cygwin, gcc, account, please contact the private mailinglist admin-requests@sourceware.org.

Sourceware is a Software Freedom Conservancy member project. Conservancy is a not-for-profit organization that provides Sourceware financial and administrative assistance, handling (US) tax-deductible, earmarked donations, asset stewardship, contract negotiation and execution, basic legal advice and services, fundraising assistance, leadership mentoring, advice and guidance. Conservancy handles all non-profit administrivia for Sourceware.

Sourceware interacts with Conservancy through the Sourceware Project Leadership Committee, currently composed of the following members:

Frank Ch. Eigler
Christopher Faylor
Ian Kelling
Ian Lance Taylor
Tom Tromey
Jon Turney
Mark J. Wielaard
Elena Zannoni

These individuals participate in their own capacity and the Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement between Conservancy and the Sourceware PLC states that there cannot be a majority of people affiliated with the same organization (max two members can be employed by the same entity at once). Conflict of Interest Policy.

To support the Software Freedom Conservancy, please become a sustainer. You can also donate directly to Sourceware.

Free Infrastructure Services

Free Software needs Free Infrastructure. Towards that goal, standard services we provide are:

websites backed by git, possible on separate domains
mailing lists using mailman and public-inbox
git hosting using gitweb and cgit, optionally using gitolite
automation through cronjobs and/or git hooks
bug tracking using bugzilla
patch tracking via patchwork
integration testing using buildbot
wikis using moinmoin
releases, including ftp, rsync and mirrors.
automated source and documentation snapshots
others - just ask!

Sponsors and thanks

The following individuals, corporations and organisations provide hardware, bandwidth and services to Sourceware:

Red Hat provides the main server (and backup server) including builder.sourceware.org, patchwork.sourceware.org and inbox.sourceware.org
OSUOSL hosts the snapshots server, and x86_64 and arm64 workers for builder.sourceware.org
Brno University of Technology provides the ppc64le worker for builder.sourceware.org ran by Dan Horák
Marist College provides the s390x worker for builder.sourceware.org ran by Dan Horák
IBM provides the Power9 and Power10 workers for builder.sourceware.org
Works on Arm initiative provides the arm64 and armhf workers for builder.sourceware.org
Gentoo Foundation provides the sparc workers for builder.sourceware.org
StarFive donated 4 VisionFive 2 boards which run CI jobs on builder.sourceware.org
Thomas Fitzsimmons runs the ppc64 worker for builder.sourceware.org
Mark Wielaard runs the x86_64 container, i386 worker and arm64/armhf boards for builder.sourceware.org
Frank Eigler runs the x86_64 fedrawhide worker for builder.sourceware.org

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