Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit: The future of The GNU C Library.

[Jeff Law]

On 03/27/2012 09:03 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> Community,
>
> On Thursday April 5th I will be speaking at the Linux Foundation
> Collaboration Summit about the future of The GNU C Library.
>
> https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit/odonell
>
> I'm looking to collect ideas from the community to include in my
> talk. If you have an idea for something you would like to work on
> or *will* be working on in the coming year please send it to the
> list or email me privately.
>
> Anything goes, I'm looking to create a grab-bag of ideas from the
> community including such crazy things as:
>
> * Splitting out libm from libc and building them as two libraries
>    under an umbrella of glibc.
>
> * Working with the tirpc team to flesh out a complete RPC solution
>    with new whizbang features.
>
> * Working to identify and develop a benchmarking system that we
>    can use as a standard for which to test performance changes against.
>    That way the next time a "optimized for foo" patch arrives we can
>    say "How did it fare against the benchmark?"
>
> * I plan to organize a bug-stomp and fix 10 bugs!
>
> Your ideas will get credit and your name will appear in the talk
> slides (only if you are OK with that).
ABI/API testing

jeff