Re: [PATCH v2] Added Fiji Hindi language locale for Fiji

[Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>]

On 07/07/2017 01:45 PM, Mike FABIAN wrote:
> Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 07/06/2017 05:24 AM, Akhilesh Kumar wrote:
>>> [BZ #21207]
>>>        * locales/hif_FJ: New file.
>>>        * SUPPORTED: Add hif_FJ/UTF-8.
>>>        * iso-639.def: Add DEFINE_LANGUAGE_CODE3 ("Fiji Hindi", hif, hif).
>>
>> What's our policy regarding backporting of new locales?  Should we add
>> new locales during the freeze?
> 
> I asked Siddhesh and he said it is OK:
> 
> <mfabian_> siddhesh: Now that glibc 2.26 freeze is ON, what about locale data
>            changes like
>            https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-07/msg00057.html ? Do these
>            need to wait for 2.27 or is it OK to do such changes because if has
>            an effect only on locale data and not source code?
>                                                           [17年07月04日 14:15:44]
> <siddhesh> mfabian_, I think locale data changes should be OK.  We do things
>            like translation updates on a regular basis during freeze.
>                                                           [17年07月04日 14:16:41]

I'm a bit concerned about the set of supported locales changing.  That's
visible to applications to some extent, and if we keep making changes
throughout the freeze, the Fedora mass rebuild will happen before the
set of locales is finalized.  But maybe the risk of problems is quite
low, and the kind of problems that would result from that are minor anyway.

Thanks,
Florian