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

[Szabolcs Nagy]

On 29/06/18 15:35, Florian Weimer wrote:
> 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?
> 

yes, i can help with reviews next week.