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Re: [ Guidance ] Preparing for Contribution
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: JeanHeyd Meneide <phdofthehouse at gmail dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 15:35:47 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ Guidance ] Preparing for Contribution
- References: <CANHA4OjzJd3PcqV0sP_92WLu=pqTKtKv9tEckq2Qy+cQcg93hw@mail.gmail.com>
* JeanHeyd Meneide:
> Dear glibc Maintainers and Contributors,
>
> I hope this e-mail finds you doing well this Holiday Season! I am
> interested in developing a few fast routines for text encoding for
> musl after the positive reception of a paper for the C Standard
> related to fast conversion routines:
>
> https://thephd.github.io/vendor/future_cxx/papers/source/C%20-%20Efficient%20Character%20Conversions.html
>
> I would like to make sure I can contribute to glibc
> appropriately. I have Copyright Assigned myself to the Free Software
> Foundation and I do contribute occasionally to libstdc++; is there
> anything else I would need to make sure I can submit patches for
> review to glibc?
I've already posted a comment on the parallel thread on the musl list:
<https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2019/12/25/5>
I think they apply even more so to glibc because we support locales with
those fake shift states for character buffering.
Thanks,
Florian