Re: State of libc-locale?

[Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot com>]

On 04/04/2012 08:34 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Andreas Jaeger<aj@suse.com>  wrote:
> > On 04/04/2012 05:29 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 4:46 AM, Andreas Jaeger<aj@suse.com>    wrote:
> > > > Looking at the libc-locale archives and the many open bugs regarding
> > > > locales: Is anybody still taking care of the locales?
> > >
> > >
> > > There are two issues here that I see:
> > >
> > > * What are the distros doing.
> > >
> > > * Bugzilla triage process.
> > >
> > > We should pull in the distros them in to talk about what they are
> > > doing if anything with the locale bugs they get.
> > >
> > > I've tried to start documenting our distro contacts here:
> > > http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/MAINTAINERS#Distribution_Maintainers
> >
> >
> > Thanks, I've added myself for openSUSE and Michael for SUSE.
> >
> >
> > > The bugzilla triage process is something we are still growing into.
> >
> >
> > I know.
> >
> > locales looks special since it has a mailing list associated with it,
>
> It's not special.

It was somehow special in the past but it does not need to be that way 
any longer.

> I think that we should kill the locales list and get everyone to post
> issues to libc-alpha.
>
> They are bugs just like any other bugs, having a special list or a
> special process for them just means it will get neglected.
>
> I'm a stalwart proponent for having only one way to do something :-)
>
> Comments?

Yeah, let's change the default owner, mass reassign the list to 
unassigned and delete the mailing list,

Andreas
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