2.29 freeze update: Last fortnight

[Zack Weinberg]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 11:53 AM Rafal Luzynski
<digitalfreak@lingonborough.com> wrote:
> Hi Siddhesh,
>
> 15.01.2019 15:37 Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@gotplt.org> wrote:
> > [...]
> > How is the progress on the strftime change?  It would be nice to wrap it
> > up this week so that we can declare a hard freeze for the last week.
>
> We need 2 things:
>
> 1. There are documentation changes which I hesitate to review because
>    I think this should be done by a native English speaker (or anyone
>    having equivalently perfect knowledge of English language).

I can review them if you reply to this email with the archive URL(s)
of the most recent version(s) of the documentation patch(es).

> 2. I still don't understand why the newly added argument of
>    __strftime_internal yr_spec is of the type "int *" rather than just
>    "int".  Maybe it is correct and the reason is that I have not
>    analyzed it carefully enough.  I'm sorry, I am unable to analyze
>    it more carefully this week.

Unfortunately I don't know enough about the guts of strftime to help
with this part.

zw