glibc/DEC Alpha questions

[Matt Turner]

Hi Aurelien,
I guess you're about as close to a glibc/Alpha maintainer as exists
now. I hope that since Debian is dropping Alpha that you won't stop
your work. We could use your help.

I've gotten your patch from this bug report [0] into Gentoo's glibc
ebuild, but it still is not in the main glibc tree.

I've filed a Gentoo bug about your fdatasync patch [1], but I'm not
sure it's OK, since it touches parts outside of the alpha specific
areas. Could you clarify this patch?

You also filed this bug [2]; It looks pretty trivial, so this is good.

I'm also seeing a build failure in 2.10.1. I've filed a bug here [3].
Anything you can do to help here I'd really appreciate.

In the long term, what do I need to do to get changes for Alpha into
glibc? Set up my own git tree and send pull requests?

Thanks,
Matt

[0] http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5350
[1] http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5400
[2] http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10528
[3] http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10800