Re: Weekly roundup of patches

[Tom Gall <tom_gall at vnet dot ibm dot com>]

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Roland McGrath wrote:

> > It's good to have a periodic round up of the current status of pending
> > patches / work of note. It is my goal to follow more or less
> > follow the fine example set down by Andrew Morten from the 
> > linux kernel community. 
> 
> This is a fine thing to do.  I'd be very glad if you make this a regular
> weekly habit. 

Hi Roland,

Yes I do plan to do this weekly. 

> However, please separate the libc-ports issues and post
> about those on libc-ports only.  On libc-alpha, post about core libc issues.
> (There is of course no harm in mentioning ports issues' status in your
> posting, but that followup discussion should not be on libc-alpha.)

Ok, shall do! Thanks for the feedback.
 
> It would be useful to note the BZ# associated with each issue.  If there is
> none, then note that so as to encourage people who care about that issue to
> file it in the official tracking system.

Related to this, is this to suggest that my vDSO patch which isn't a bug 
but really new function, something that should have a BZ# to accompany the 
work?

For some reason (and perhaps incorrectly) I didn't think that BZ was for 
new features.

Regards,

Tom