2.26 hard freeze status

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On Friday 28 July 2017 05:43 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> My opinion on the ppc64le issue is that we should *not* wait for binutils
> 2.29 to get a fix. It is disappointing that a binutils release would go
> out that had received so little testing that it breaks glibc, but we have
> a time boxed release and we should stick to our time box.
> 
> With glibc releases we try hard to make sure glibc compiles properly with
> new and old gcc, and new and old binutils, but it is not a hard and fast
> rule that it should be compilable with all versions.
> 
> I believe that binutils 2.29 will have to receive more work over the
> coming weeks to usable for distributions.

Sounds good, I'm going to announce a Friday midnight UTC freeze then if
that's enough time for you to review Torvald's fix and for him to push
it.  FWIW, I took a look at the patch and it looks pretty straightforward.

Release freeze is then on Tuesday night UTC and I'll do the release on
Wednesday my time.  That should give us a couple of days to cool off and
hope that nothing is broken badly in the meantime.

Siddhesh