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Re: Kill libc-ports?


On 9/6/2013 3:37 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Sep 2013, Ryan S. Arnold wrote:
>
>> I don't think we want to facilitate absentee platform maintainership anyway.
> The point is not to facilitate "absentee" maintainership.  It's to 
> facilitate maintainership by people with limited time and many other 
> responsibilities (which I think is most toolchain developers) by keeping 
> to a minimum the effort needed to track relevant changes and discussions.  

I think this is a good model.  I do mostly skim libc-alpha (though I may skip over some threads more quickly than others), but if libc-ports were being actively used to call out architecture-dependent changes, I might well take advantage of that to shift to skimming libc-alpha just by subject line (for example).  For what it's worth, I also applaud Joseph for thinking about how to best cultivate the limited attention span of the folks who are responsible for glibc.

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