Re: glibc 2.8 release on gnu.org?

["Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at systemhalted dot org>]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Brett Neumeier <bneumeier@gmail.com> wrote:
> A couple of people also noted, in that thread, that the official glibc
> web page at http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/ still shows the current
> version as being 2.7 -- which is still the case today.

This is my fault, I dropped the ball on the update. Bear with me
because I'm new to maintaining the glibc websites (sourceware/gnu).

> If the glibc developers are too busy or disinterested in keeping the
> gnu.org site updated with current releases, that's fine with me; but I
> think it would be nice if gnu.org /were/ updated with current
> information, since I know that some people (like me) look at that page
> for information on new releases.

I agree. I will be updating this over the weekend.

> I would therefore like to volunteer to become a maintainer of the
> glibc web page at gnu.org, and to create and distribute release
> tarballs. Is there any process by which I could get access to do these
> things? Who do I need to talk to about this kind of thing?

At present we already have a website maintainer, me, but I'm forgetful
so I appreciate graceful reminders.

We are in desperate need of a wiki gardener, are you interested in
writing wiki content?
See: http://sources.redhat.com/glibc/wiki/

Cheers,
Carlos.