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

["Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>]

On 01/07/2015 12:44 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> 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.  

Thanks.

> 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

Please get these reviewed and checked in ASAP.

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

Likewise.

>  * 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

These are up to you.
 
> I also postponed to next release (2.22) the:
> 
>  * BZ12683: pthread cancellation race condition
>    - https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.21/bz12683

Agreed. This needs more time.

Cheers,
Carlos.