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Re: The 2.20 release code freeze is very near
- From: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux dot org>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 11:51:41 +1000
- Subject: Re: The 2.20 release code freeze is very near
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On 03/07/14 02:55, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> The code freeze for the glibc-2.20 release was scheduled for July 1st.
>> I realise there are still a few things that have appeared on the mailing
>> list that are desirable for this release as listed on the wiki page [1].
>>
>> So this is not a freeze, but it should be getting quite cold...
>> Consider whether your changes can wait until 2.21.
>
> Another thing to consider is that (according to his autoresponder), Joseph
> is unavailable until July 15th. Shortly after that, it's Cauldron and
> several of us will be travelling and so on. (Myself, I will be travelling
> after the 16th, then at Cauldron, and then on vacation the following week,
> until the 28th).
Thanks for that information. I had forgotten about Cauldron.
> People being gone certainly doesn't mean we should have more destabilizing
> changes than we would if everyone were around. But it does mean that the
> testing by machine maintainers, maintainer review of small patches, and so
> forth, will be delayed or slowed down this month.
>
> I don't think we should get upset about delays, really. The notion of
> time-based releases is to make sure we have them frequently enough, not
> because we have deadlines. It's more important that we have a release
> of high quality and are confident of the testing it's received than that
> it happen in a given month rather than the next.
I agree. I see it as my role to start pushing people towards the
release now anyway to stop the release delay being months rather than weeks.
Allan