Release policy discussion

[Dan Kegel]

Andrew Walrond wrote:
> Have there been any decisions made wrt releases? This was mentioned a while 
> back when someone (Hellwig?) asked about forthcoming releases. 
> 
> Obviously there hasn't been a release for quite a while; the current stable 
> release doesn't build with either of the last two releases of gcc without 
> patches.

Here's my list, by the way: http://kegel.com/crosstool/current/patches/glibc-2.3.2/
About half of the patches I apply are simply taken from glibc cvs,
and one is simply to reduce the RAM needed by one of the testcases...

> This is a good natured query - I am aware of the issues; this from when we 
> were all a good deal younger ;)
> 	http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2000-01/msg00111.html

- Dan