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Re: v2: The GNU C Library 2.16 release plan


From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 00:13:31 +0000 (UTC)

> Three weeks seems a more practical time for architecture maintainers in 
> libc and ports to ensure their architectures are up to date and have good 
> test results not indicating architecture-specific problems.  Here freeze 
> needs to be understood in terms of avoiding any patches likely to need 
> per-architecture updates (even if those updates are mechanical) or 
> involving risk of per-architecture breakage more than avoiding changes in 
> other areas of glibc.

I agree with Joseph, especially given the fact that we have people
who have to check multiple targets.


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