Monday Patch Queue Review update (2023-06-19)

[Carlos O'Donell]

Most recent meeting status is always here:
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/PatchworkReviewMeetings#Update

Meeting: 2023-06-19 @ 0900h EST5EDT

Video/Audio: https://bbb.linuxfoundation.org/room/adm-alk-1uu-7fu

IRC: #glibc on OFTC.

Review new patches and restart review at the top.

 * State NEW delegate NOBODY 310 (+3 from last week)
 * Carlos's SLI at 172 (+4) days average patch age in queue and 55812 accumulated patch days.
 * Starting at 71283. Previous stop at 70716.
 * Noted that Red Hat Platform Tools pre-commit CI bot is down. Running only with Linaro TCWG bot.
 * Rejected some series as Failed CI.
 * Discussed that some of hte problems we face would get fixed by MR/PR based workflows e.g. post-commit changes would not happen, and patch versions tracking would not be needed, etc.
 * Discussed how to make the patch application reliable with respect to the applied patch. Would need to use the 'base-commit' to apply patches? No. This is problematic for testers that track failure baselines as this base-commit might not have a recorded failure baseline. The easiest solution is to mark "failed to apply" patches as having no failures e.g. indeterminate state.
 * [v8,1/3] posix: regcomp(): clear RE_DOT_NOT_NULL (Ahelena)
  * Still needs review.
 * [v15] POSIX locale covers every byte [BZ# 29511] (Ahelena)
  * Still needs review.
 * PowerPC: Influence hwcaps via cpu arch-level GLIBC_TUNABLES. (Mahesh)
  * Should get review from power maintainers.
 * [v3,1/2] elf: Port ldconfig away from stack-allocated paths
  * Adhemerval: Will review last patch.
 * manual: Enhance documentation of the <ctype.h> functions (Florian)
  * Carlos: Review decision to accept extensions.
 * [v2] fileops: Don't process , ccs= as individual mode flags (BZ#18906) (Joe)
  * manual: Update documentation of strerror and related functions (Florian)
   * Carlos: Review the issue with the memory going away.
 * Fix tests-clean Makefile target (bug 30545) (Maxim)
  * Carlos: To review.
 * add GB18030-2022 charmap [BZ #30243] (liqingqing)
  * Carlos: Asking Mike Fabian to review as upstream expert on the Unicode data and these updates.
 * Stopped at 71119.
 * [v5] Add pidfd_spawn, pidfd_spawnp, pidfd_fork, and pidfd_getpid (Adhemerval)
  * Review requested.
 * Discussed auto-closer and missing patches:
     https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2023-June/148843.html
 * [1/4] aarch64: Add vector implementations of cos routines (Ramsey)
  * Szabolcs: New version coming. Will review.
 * Format test results closer to what DejaGnu does (Maxim) 70442
  * Request for Florian to review question.

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Cheers,
Carlos.