GNU C LIbrary 2.21 freeze date -- January 9th.

[Joseph Myers]

On Wed, 7 Jan 2015, Carlos O'Donell wrote:

> On 01/07/2015 07:04 AM, Senkevich, Andrew wrote:
> > what about to postpone freeze date?
> > 
> > Intel has signed new copyright agreement with FSF and currently lawyer from FSF is working on finalization. 
> > As I know it must be ready very soon. Now it blocks libmvec patches series.
> 
> And now the question you should be expecting from me: How long do you need?
> 
> Please remember that glibc operates on time-boxed releases, with the goal
> being to make frequent stable releases for the distributions to consume.
> 
> Are all of the libmvec patches in a state that they would be ready to commit
> when the authorization from the FSF arrives?

I was waiting for consensus on the ABI documentation before reviewing the 
final patches.  Have there been public statements from GCC / LLVM / ICC 
maintainers agreeing that the proposed ABI documentation describes how 
they intend to interpret the OpenMP pragmas on x86_64?  If not, you need 
to work on pushing things to consensus in those communities.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com