v2: The GNU C Library 2.16 release plan

[Jeff Law]

On 05/10/2012 04:23 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:

>
> The timeline looks like this:
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> * Development freeze of trunk on Monday June 4th.
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>    * Last day of active development is Sunday June 3rd.
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> * [3 weeks] Ask all machine maintainers to test and report back the status of their machines.
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>    * Updating ABI files so ABI check passes.
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>    * Updating ULPs for the release.
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>    * Regenerating any machine files that are out of date.
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>    If I hear back from the machine maintainers quickly then this might be as short as 1-2 days and we release early.
>
> * [1 week] Between June 25th-29th I will branch master to the 2.16 branch and, after any last minute tweaks, tag it for a final release.
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> * The release will be made on the first week of July.
>
> http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Glibc%20Timeline
>
> http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release
Seems pretty reasonable.  I don't see that there'll be time to dive into 
the ongoing problems with pthread_cond_wait on x86/x86_64, so the 
distros will likely continue to hack that up.

Time scale looks good for Fedora; I'd probably look to update fedora 
rawhide in the next week or so to track the 2.16 bits.

Jeff