[$] Who controls glibc?

The removal of an old joke from the GNU C Library manual might not seemlike the sort of topic that would inspire a heated debate. At times,though, a small action can serve as an inadvertent proxy for a moresignificant question, one which is relevant to both the developers and theusers of the project. In this case, that question would be: how is the project governed and whomakes decisions about which patches are applied?