[ Guidance ] Preparing for Contribution

[Florian Weimer]

* JeanHeyd Meneide:

> Dear glibc Maintainers and Contributors,
>
>      I hope this e-mail finds you doing well this Holiday Season! I am
> interested in developing a few fast routines for text encoding for
> musl after the positive reception of a paper for the C Standard
> related to fast conversion routines:
>
>      https://thephd.github.io/vendor/future_cxx/papers/source/C%20-%20Efficient%20Character%20Conversions.html
>
>      I would like to make sure I can contribute to glibc
> appropriately. I have Copyright Assigned myself to the Free Software
> Foundation and I do contribute occasionally to libstdc++; is there
> anything else I would need to make sure I can submit patches for
> review to glibc?

I've already posted a comment on the parallel thread on the musl list:

  <https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2019/12/25/5>

I think they apply even more so to glibc because we support locales with
those fake shift states for character buffering.

Thanks,
Florian