glibc-2.17 release status...

[Carlos O'Donell]

On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 4:51 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 13:46:04 -0500
>
>> On Wednesday 12 December 2012 15:34:16 David Miller wrote:
>>> The tree is frozen, and it the last minute fixes have essentially
>>> slowed beyond a trickle to something approaching silence :-)
>>
>> i posted the ia64 test info to the wiki.  i also verified alpha & sh4 compiled
>> fine.  seems like all the other arches have posted their info too.
>
> Right now I'm just waiting for the powerpc ULPs update.
>
> I'm insanely saddened that this is taking weeks and holding the
> entire release up.

Insanely? :-/

> It should take a few hours, maximum, to finish this task.
>
> Ryan keeps promising to take care of these things but nothing
> seems to be happening.

Ryan,

Please, please lean on the rest of us if you can't get something done in time.

We're here to help.

Cheers,
Carlos.