Accelerating Y2038 glibc fixes

[Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx dot de>]

Hi all,

this is a somewhat desperate call for help...

We have been trying for some time to help some of our customers to
get patches into glibc to fix the remaining Y2038 issues.

But progress is way too slow...

The problems we are facing are not on a technical level - we believe
we could deal with such.

See for example [1] - there are just 7 lines of "code".  But Joseph
does not accept our patches.  The arguments he gives are not on a
technical level; instead he says that only a native English speaker
who has a with deep understanding of glibc internals and the
previous development process will be capable to provide such a patch
in an acceptable way.

To be honest - I think only himself would fulfill this requirement
good enough.

But Joseph has not enough resources available, and he cannot
allocate more resources even if such efforts would be paid for by
DENX.  And he does not know of anyone to help.

In short, we are stuck, and not even proper funding can accelerate
the process - not to mention, that it's impossible to give any
deadlines at all.


Obviously, this is just my personal and external view - I guess I
must be missing something, because I cannot imagine that the progress
of a project that plays such a central role to the whole FOSS
community suffers from such bottlenecks, and that these cannot be
helped.

Is there anything we can do to accelerate this process?  As
mentioned, we are willing to dedicate both man-power and/or money,
if this helps.

Thanks in advance!

[1] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1114061/



Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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