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

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 01/07/2015 09:02 AM, Senkevich, Andrew 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, no such statements from maintainers were published now, but no objections also.
> 
> Carlos, I think 2.5 week from today will be enough. Is it ok?

No it's not OK. We should never rush ABI consensus work.

I would strongly suggest we move this into 2.22 and check it in as
soon as we have ABI consensus.

Cheers,
Carlos.