glibc 2.28 release on August 1st and extended ABI freeze for ppc64le float128.

[Florian Weimer]

On 06/29/2018 04:33 PM, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> On 26/06/18 20:32, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> I'm willing to extend the ABI/API freeze to July 13th for the ppc64le
>> float128 changes, to allow those to go into the glibc 2.28 release.
>>
> 
> i just posted math patches which would be nice to have in 2.28
> 
> there are two parts:
> - the first does not change abi and provides new implementations
> with significant performance improvements,
> - the second changes abi by adding new symbol versions that don't
> do SVID error handling and further improves performance a bit.
> 
> these require non-trivial amount of review and testing and i'd
> like to extend the review period a bit before the freeze for
> these too.  i think the first part has a good chance to get
> into an acceptable state.  the second part is independent but
> would be nice to get it in 2.28 too.
> 
> thoughts?

I'm generally sympathetic to this, but we have a lot of unreviewed 
math-related patches that should go into 2.28.  Would you be able to 
help with review of the other patches?

Thanks,
Florian