Release timelines: 2.15.1 and 2.16

[Jeff Law]

On 04/13/2012 02:33 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:

> Jeff is now the primary owner (Andreas Schwab was last I knew).
> Unless the process has changed, all the Fedora work is done in the
> fedora/* branches on sourceware and the Fedora pkgs stuff is generated
> from there, so it should be easy for everybody to see how it goes.
No longer true.  Let's just say the handoff from Andreas to myself was 
far from ideal.  These days glibc is handled just like any other Fedora 
package.  The fedora branches on sourceware aren't actively being used.



> (I set up that process with Jakub around the time we first switched
> libc to git and I wrote the scripts, but I haven't paid attention to
> any later changes.)
It may make sense to resurrect this stuff; at the least it might make 
merging patches back and forth easier.  It's been on my list of things 
to look at.

>
>
> It was never very clear to me (even when I was somewhat intimately
> involved) which of the Fedora schedule milestones did or should correspond
> to our libc release process.  It would be great to have that clarified,
> formalized, and stated on some glibc and Fedora wiki pages.
Well, I haven't owned glibc for Fedora for terribly long; however, it 
seems to me that Fedora ought to be picking up whatever the current 
official release is at the time Fedora branches for its next release. 
If a release is close (as was the case for glibc-2.15), then Fedora can 
track the glibc release branch as necessary.

jeff