[PATCH 2/2] Use C11 _Alignas on scratch_buffer internal buffer

[Paul Eggert]

Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> the changes you mentioned came mostly because you pushed
> them without much discussion

 From glibc's point of view I suggest thinking of Gnulib as being the "farm 
team". Gnulib is largely maintained by people who are drawn to it partly because 
it is simpler and doesn't have all the bureaucratic hassles that glibc does, so 
that one can fix bugs and add features more quickly and easily than one can in 
glibc.

There are advantages to both projects' development styles of course.

> I would expect, to make it easier for both glibc and gnulib, that once a patch 
> is submitted on a maillist we finish consensus and pushed on the referred
> project and *after* we sync with either glibc/gnulib.

I doubt whether we Gnulib folks would want to have a policy of waiting for the 
usual days (weeks?) for a glibc review before installing a glob fix. Often we 
have a software release to put out, and Gnulib is supposed to help, not to slow 
us down. With that in mind, perhaps it's better to continue keeping the 
collaboration close but not lock-step, so that the goal is for glob.c etc. to be 
identical in both projects, but we can tolerate short periods when this is not true.

That being said, there's no rush in installing into Gnulib the current set of 
patches that you're proposing, and it's fine to wait for you to revise it along 
the lines suggested before installing it into both Gnulib and glibc.