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| 1 # Octave Governance | |
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| 3 This page should clarify about the various entities and actors around the GNU Octave programming language. | |
| 4 | |
| 5 ## GNU Octave | |
| 6 | |
| 7 The GNU Octave project was initialized 1992 by **John W. Eaton** <jwe@octave.org>. | |
| 8 It consists of [some code](https://www.octave.org/hg/octave) | |
| 9 and a community of people who work on that code. | |
| 10 The most clear cut line that can be drawn is that there is a | |
| 11 [set of people](https://savannah.gnu.org/project/memberlist.php?group=octave) | |
| 12 who have commit access to the GNU Octave Savannah project: | |
| 13 there are currently 24 committers (10 active and 14 dormant). | |
| 14 This set of people doesn’t really define the project, however, | |
| 15 since there are many people who are prolific contributors to the GNU Octave | |
| 16 ecosystem but who do not have | |
| 17 “[commit bit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committer#Commit_bit).” | |
| 18 The communal nature of open-source makes it difficult to precisely define | |
| 19 where the GNU Octave project ends and the greater community begins, | |
| 20 which is exactly how we like it. | |
| 21 | |
| 22 Until the present day, | |
| 23 most final development decisions are made or agreed with by John W. Eaton. | |
| 24 | |
| 25 ## Free Software Foundation (FSF) | |
| 26 | |
| 27 The FSF <https://www.fsf.org/> is a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization | |
| 28 promoting computer user freedom. | |
| 29 | |
| 30 With the help of the FSF, both indivials and corporations have the opportunity to | |
| 31 [donate to the GNU Octave project](https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=10). | |
| 32 Despite the free usage of the FSF infrastructure for distributing | |
| 33 the GNU Octave source code. | |
| 34 | |
| 35 The GNU Octave project does not receive any direct or indirect | |
| 36 monetary fundings by the FSF. | |
| 37 | |
| 38 ## Related Organizations With No Governance Role | |
| 39 | |
| 40 There are organizations that people sometimes mistakenly believe | |
| 41 have some kind of official control over the GNU Octave project. | |
| 42 This section details three of them, | |
| 43 but please note that neither has any official relationship | |
| 44 to the GNU Octave project, | |
| 45 nor any governance capacity with respect to the project. | |
| 46 Individuals who have some control over the project | |
| 47 and happen to belong to these organizations, | |
| 48 have that control as individuals and not as members of those organizations | |
| 49 and takes the separation of those roles quite seriously. | |
| 50 | |
| 51 ### Octave Forge and Octave Packages | |
| 52 | |
| 53 **Octave Forge** <https://octave.sourceforge.io/> is the former collection | |
| 54 of software packages, that can be easily installed and used in GNU Octave. | |
| 55 The Octave Sourceforge project was initiated in 2000 | |
| 56 and active development stopped in 2018. | |
| 57 New packages are not accepted, but existing packages are still maintained. | |
| 58 The project lists [56 members](https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/_members/) | |
| 59 (10 active and 46 dormant) maintaining existing Octave packages, | |
| 60 but not the source code of GNU Octave itself. | |
| 61 | |
| 62 **Octave Packages** <https://gnu-octave.github.io/packages/> is another | |
| 63 collection of Octave packages and intended as the successor of **Octave Forge**. | |
| 64 New packages are accepted here and the development is independent of GNU Octave itself. | |
| 65 Until today full support by Octave's package manager is not given, however, | |
| 66 it is a fully functional index for Octave packages. | |
| 67 | |
| 68 ### GitHub Organization | |
| 69 | |
| 70 The GitHub Organization <https://github.com/gnu-octave/> | |
| 71 was established around 2020. | |
| 72 It is a loose connection of currently | |
| 73 [27 members](https://github.com/orgs/gnu-octave/people) | |
| 74 (10 active and 14 dormant) | |
| 75 developing software intended to be used with GNU Octave, | |
| 76 but not the source code of GNU Octave itself. | |
| 77 | |
| 78 ## Questions | |
| 79 | |
| 80 If you have questions about GNU Octave's governance structure, | |
| 81 please reach out via email to <jwe@octave.org>. | |
| 82 | |
| 83 | |
| 84 This page is inspired by the [JuliaLang project](https://julialang.org/governance/). | |
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