GNU officially launched the collaborative development platform GNU Assembly

GNU announced the official launch of GNU Assembly and its website and stated that the website will become a collaboration platform for GNU software package developers.

The article stated that the project originated from an email sent by Andy Wingo of GNU Guile to GNU maintainers 10 years ago, hoping to have a collective decision-making forum for the GNU project. Now that vision has become a reality.

Assembly is a new platform for the GNU toolchain project. It currently houses about 30 GNU projects, including GCC, GNU C library, GnuCOBOL, and other packages that will be used as a basis for community collaboration and development. In February of last year, GNU proposed a founding document through a transparent discussion process, and then extensively collected opinions, and then established the Assembly mailing list. This mailing list is a safe space where maintainers and developers of GNU packages can discuss their organization and management issues.

In addition, the article stated that GNU Assembly is moving towards a governance model based on compliance with the GNU Social Contract and code of conduct. When the GNU Assembly as a whole needs to make specific decisions, such as determining the consistency of the GNU software package, dealing with possible financial and legal issues, etc., it will face the establishment of a governance model. At present, it is in the early stage of formulating a governance model. In the future, it will use the GNOME Foundation and Debian as a reference to achieve transparency in decision-making, broad participation of members, and healthy rights replacement.