The GNU C Library 2.16 release plan.

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday 07 May 2012 15:54:11 Roland McGrath wrote:
> > I have many x32 patches waiting to be reviewed and submitted.
> > What should we do about them?
> 
> I intend to catch up on a lot of such backlog this week.  That said, I
> don't think it's realistic to expect the review and necessary reworking
> of details to be in shape in a week from today.  With some focus, I
> imagine we can get it done in two or three weeks.  That might fit into
> something close enough to Carlos's proposed schedule, with a bit of
> slushiness in the definition of "freeze".
> 
> Given how recent the actual 2.15 release was (though that was a pretty
> long time after the glibc-2.15 tag was made), I think 2.16 getting
> pushed out a few more weeks would not be unreasonable.  This was always
> going to be an unusual cycle anyway, being the first in a substantially
> new scheme of how we handle doing releases.
> 
> That said, we certainly want to stick to the principle of time-based
> releases rather than having releases wait for particular features to be
> finished/integrated.  There is no deep reason for x32 to be a special
> case in this logic.  I guess I'm pretty solidly ambivalent about whether
> we should try hard to get x32 into this cycle or not.

fwiw, i hope it'll make the cut as it'll be easier than backporting the 
patches myself for Gentoo ;)
-mike
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