Re: Weekday/Workday for EU locales

[Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>]

On 04/20/2012 05:02 AM, Petr Baudis wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:32:26AM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > On 04/19/2012 06:45 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Jeff Law<law@redhat.com>   wrote:
> > > > There are a multitude of bugs in the database related to the wrong first
> > > > weekday/workday for locales within the EU.
> > >
> > > Could you please file bugzilla issues for each locale so we can fix them?
> >
> > Shouldn't one mentioning all enough - especially if it contains a patch? ;)
>
> I agree, bugzilla issues for each locale seems like a needless
> bureaucracy here. Having this in a single issue would carry less noise.
Agreed.  One BZ for the overarching issue, the existing locale-specific 
BZs around this issue would then be closed as duplicates.  The last 
thing I want to do is "make work".

Creating a BZ for each locale that needs fixing would probably take 
longer than fixing the bug itself across all the locales..

> > > (a) Gather distro maintainer consensus by sending an email to
> > > libc-alpha, CC all the distro maintainers asking for comment, give
> > > them two weeks to respond.
> >
> > I'd like to have a list of wrong locales first.
> >
> > > http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/MAINTAINERS#Distribution_Maintainers
>
> It would be good to also try sending notification mails to
> contact emails of all the concerned locales, in case any locale
> maintainer has any reservations. When you have a list of locales,
> doing this should be fairly trivial.
I'll pull together the list of locales and send the message.


jeff