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RE: GNU C LIbrary 2.21 freeze date -- January 9th.
- From: "Senkevich, Andrew" <andrew dot senkevich at intel dot com>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, "Zamyatin, Igor" <igor dot zamyatin at intel dot com>, "Melik-Adamyan, Areg" <areg dot melik-adamyan at intel dot com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 14:02:41 +0000
- Subject: RE: GNU C LIbrary 2.21 freeze date -- January 9th.
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>> On 01/07/2015 07:04 AM, Senkevich, Andrew wrote:
>> > what about to postpone freeze date?
>> >
>> > Intel has signed new copyright agreement with FSF and currently lawyer from FSF is working on finalization.
>> > As I know it must be ready very soon. Now it blocks libmvec patches series.
>>
>> And now the question you should be expecting from me: How long do you need?
>>
>> Please remember that glibc operates on time-boxed releases, with the
>> goal being to make frequent stable releases for the distributions to consume.
>>
>> Are all of the libmvec patches in a state that they would be ready to
>> commit when the authorization from the FSF arrives?
> I was waiting for consensus on the ABI documentation before reviewing the final patches. Have there been public
> statements from GCC / LLVM / ICC maintainers agreeing that the proposed ABI documentation describes how they
> intend to interpret the OpenMP pragmas on x86_64? If not, you need to work on pushing things to consensus in those
> communities.
Joseph, no such statements from maintainers were published now, but no objections also.
Carlos, I think 2.5 week from today will be enough. Is it ok?
--
Andrew