Re: GNU C LIbrary 2.21 freeze date -- January 9th.

[Adhemerval Zanella <azanella at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>]

On 06-01-2015 18:04, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> Does anyone object to a freeze date of January 9th, this friday?
>
> Please see the release page for more details:
> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.21
>
> Desired blockers should be up and on that page, and I'll be
> reviewing them shortly.
>
> Cheers,
> Carlos.
>
I am fine with this date and I have update the release wiki.  For this
release I would like to push

 * New POSIX-compliance '''fmemopen''': I sent it on last release, but
   since it was near the closing date, I postpone to this one.  I really
   would like to push it on 2.21
   * https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-12/msg00226.html
   * https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-12/msg00227.html

 * Add x86 32 bit vDSO time function support
   * https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-12/msg00229.html

 * Transactional Lock Elision for PowerPC: I plan to push it this week if
   no one objects.
   * https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-12/msg00634.html
   * https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-12/msg00635.html
   * https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-12/msg00636.html

 * powerpc64 optimized string implementations: I also plan to push it soon,
   I just checking the latest patch (strcmp) Ondrej message.
   * https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-12/msg00912.html
   * https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-12/msg00913.html
   * https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-12/msg00878.html
   * https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-01/msg00004.html
   * https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-01/msg00158.html


I also postponed to next release (2.22) the:

 * BZ12683: pthread cancellation race condition
   - https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.21/bz12683