Re: glibc release branch procedures

2009-06-20 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Roland McGrathrol...@redhat.com wrote: I propose these as recommended guidelines for all release branch managers: 1. Don't talk about recommended guidelines for all release branch managers.   No, wait, do talk about them.   Don't suspect your neighbor.  

Re: glibc release branch procedures

2009-06-06 Thread Petr Baudis
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 08:18:30PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: I hereby solicit somebody to make sure the results of these discussions get wikiized. Don't all fall over yourselves rushing to volunteer. I can do it after it becomes clear whatever we reached is the final consensus for now. I

Re: glibc release branch procedures

2009-06-03 Thread Roland McGrath
You've talked a lot about detailed concrete criteria for what to include on a release branch and how to operate it. That's a lovely discussion, but I think it may have a bit missed the point of what I'm trying to start. With the special exception of copyright rules, the sum of what I intended to

Re: glibc release branch procedures

2009-05-28 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Sun, 24 May 2009, Petr Baudis wrote: Hi, I added glibc maintainers of several major Linux distributions to Cc list to gather their opinions on what kind of patches should be included in the glibc-2.10-branch if they were to use that instead of the current practice (the only release

Re: glibc release branch procedures

2009-05-26 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 24 May 2009 07:44:40 Petr Baudis wrote: I'm full-quoting the mail. Summary of previous discussion: Me and Roland agree that (up to exceptions) only cherry-picked commits from master will appear on the branch, they will be only bugfixes and API/ABI will never be changed. What we

Re: glibc release branch procedures

2009-05-24 Thread Petr Baudis
Hi, I added glibc maintainers of several major Linux distributions to Cc list to gather their opinions on what kind of patches should be included in the glibc-2.10-branch if they were to use that instead of the current practice (the only release and variously large patchball of backported