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Re: glibc 2.25 development --- 46 days to freeze.
- From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at gotplt dot org>
- Cc: Jochen Hein <jochen at jochen dot org>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 10:53:26 -0500
- Subject: Re: glibc 2.25 development --- 46 days to freeze.
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On 12/01/2016 11:03 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Dec 2016, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 16 November 2016 11:26 AM, Jochen Hein wrote:
>>> Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> We have 46 days of active development until the freeze for glibc 2.25 starts.
>>>
>>> Can we get a snapshot of the current pot-file out to the translators? We
>>> missed the last two releases, so I guess we need some time to catch up.
>>> We can (and should) refresh the pot file after the freeze to translate
>>> the last (hopefully few) messages before the release.
>>
>> Carlos, are you OK with me doing this or would there be any issues on
>> the glibc front that I am not aware of? If it is OK, I'll generate it
>> this weekend.
>
> *Don't* create an annotated tag for the version used for this (annotated
> tags have side effects that aren't wanted except for actual releases).
Is this just a "general warning?" The release process does not say to use
annotated tags. We made that mistake once and then it was removed from the
release documentation.
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Cheers,
Carlos.