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Re: glibc 2.24 --- Release on August 1st (hard deadline).
- From: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien at aurel32 dot net>
- To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux dot org>, "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv at altlinux dot org>, Khem Raj <raj dot khem at gmail dot com>, Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>, Adam Conrad <adconrad at ubuntu dot com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 23:40:50 +0200
- Subject: Re: glibc 2.24 --- Release on August 1st (hard deadline).
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On 2016-03-31 09:26, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>
> I would like to suggest that we release glibc 2.24 on August 1st
> 2016 and consider this a hard deadline.
>
> This suggestion is strongly motivated by the accelerated Fedora 25
> schedule which could use a stable glibc 2.24 released on August 1st
> to synchronize with an Alpha Freeze on August 9th [1].
>
> This request is not out of line with the expected schedule. The
> glibc schedule is nominally February 1st / August 1st (after
> having shifted it to avoid the holiday season, starting with 2.19
> in 2014).
>
> We are somewhat lax in the exact release date, but for the 2.24
> release I'm asking that we be firm and release on August 1st. I'm
> happy to help the RM review patches leading up to this point.
>
> The 2.23 release was only 18 days behind the expected schedule,
> but that's 18 days we will lose in 2.24 development.
>
> Concerns?
>
> Is everyone OK with an August 1st 2016 release date?
For Debian that means we can include 2.24 in the Stretch release, the
transition freeze being on the 2016-Nov-05. We even have a few months
margin if needed. So it looks fine.
Cheers,
Aurelien
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