Development timeline for glibc 2.17 (code freeze in one week!)

[Ellcey, Steve]

> The current glibc 2.17 release process timeline [1] is as follows:
> 
> November:
> 1st week - Freeze. Testing starts.
> 2nd week - Send the updated libc.pot upstream for translation.
> 3rd week - More testing.
> 4th week - Tag 2.17 and update POT.
> 
> December:
> 1st week - Release 2.17.
> 
> Does anyone have any comments or concerns?

I would like to get my new MIPS memcpy checked in before 2.17 freezes.  I have submitted what I hope
is the final version to libc-ports and Maxim has said he would do some testing with it this week.

http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-ports/2012-10/msg00037.html

Steve Ellcey
sellcey@mips.com