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On Monday 07 May 2012 15:54:11 Roland McGrath wrote: > > I have many x32 patches waiting to be reviewed and submitted. > > What should we do about them? > > I intend to catch up on a lot of such backlog this week. That said, I > don't think it's realistic to expect the review and necessary reworking > of details to be in shape in a week from today. With some focus, I > imagine we can get it done in two or three weeks. That might fit into > something close enough to Carlos's proposed schedule, with a bit of > slushiness in the definition of "freeze". > > Given how recent the actual 2.15 release was (though that was a pretty > long time after the glibc-2.15 tag was made), I think 2.16 getting > pushed out a few more weeks would not be unreasonable. This was always > going to be an unusual cycle anyway, being the first in a substantially > new scheme of how we handle doing releases. > > That said, we certainly want to stick to the principle of time-based > releases rather than having releases wait for particular features to be > finished/integrated. There is no deep reason for x32 to be a special > case in this logic. I guess I'm pretty solidly ambivalent about whether > we should try hard to get x32 into this cycle or not. fwiw, i hope it'll make the cut as it'll be easier than backporting the patches myself for Gentoo ;) -mike
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