working on the backlog

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>]

I've done a bit of work on my backlog.  The patches I could apply are
applied.  For those which need clarification or changes I sent out
messages.

Where I'm at total loss are HJ's patches with all these "there was a
bug in the last patch" and "ignore the patch altogether" messages.  I
lost track.  If one of the patches I haven't commented on today is
still meant to be applied please resend of send me the pointer to the
mail archive web page.


All the other changes you can assume to be buried too deep for me to
find anytime soon.  If there is a bug or a patch which must be handled
please point me to it.


Now a bit about the coming weeks.  I'm currently very *very* busy
(which is why I don't have that much time for glibc stuff) because
between the vacation I returned from and my next trip are only a few
weeks in which I have to do the work I'm actually get paid for.
Starting from the 26th I'll be off again for two weeks.

I think it is not realistic to get a 2.2.4 release out before that
date but this doesn't mean we should not have a test release.  For
this we should of course fix all true bugs and maybe the one or the
other nuisance.  Among the latter I count the regex slow-down.  But I
wouldn't hold a release because of this.  If nobody volunteers we'll
have to wait until there is somebody.  I have some idea how to solve
this (effectively the same way fnmatch is handled) but it'll need
substantial amount of work.

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