Re: Handling of Glibc Patches

[Mark Kettenis <kettenis at wins dot uva dot nl>]

   From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
   Date: 24 Nov 1999 10:23:08 +0100

   What can be done to improve the handling of patches?

   One solution would be to create a libc-patches list where everybody
   would send patches to (similar to gcc-patches).  This way we could see
   what others have done, comment on the patches and don't duplicate the
   work.;-)

I think this is a good idea, but the discussion on the patches should
still happen on libc-hacker or libc-alpha.

But still:

 * Nobody should work on larger changes (new functionality, major code
   reorganizations) without notifying the list first.

 * It's not always a bad thing that different people try to tackle the
   same problem.  If they come out with the same solution, that
   probably means that the solution is right!  If they don't come out
   with the same solution, this might indicate that some further
   investigation is necessary.

Mark