From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E48BC385842C for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2022 18:34:47 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org E48BC385842C From: "Andreas K. Huettel" To: libc-alpha Subject: Re: Retrospective on glibc 2.34 and glibc 2.35 release. Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 19:34:40 +0100 Message-ID: <8024838.GXAFRqVoOG@pinacolada> Organization: Gentoo Linux In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart5144781.tdWV9SEqCh"; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL, SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_PASS, TXREP, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: libc-alpha@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Libc-alpha mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 18:34:49 -0000 --nextPart5144781.tdWV9SEqCh Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; protected-headers="v1" From: "Andreas K. Huettel" To: libc-alpha Cc: Carlos O'Donell Subject: Re: Retrospective on glibc 2.34 and glibc 2.35 release. Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 19:34:40 +0100 Message-ID: <8024838.GXAFRqVoOG@pinacolada> Organization: Gentoo Linux In-Reply-To: References: > Community, >=20 > I was the release manager for 2.34 and 2.35, and in retrospect I have > played the hard ABI deadline too loose for my own liking, and I think > this causes additional stress and work at the last minute that doesn't > help the project. >=20 How about a much simpler change (which, I grant it, causes extra work): * What is now the release date (with all related rules) moves one week earlier, and results in a release candidate *tarball* (with a tag) from the release branch. * One week later, the actual release is done (and contains absolutely only bugfixes compared to the rc).... Cheers, Andreas =2D-=20 Andreas K. H=FCttel dilfridge@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux developer (council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice) --nextPart5144781.tdWV9SEqCh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQKTBAABCgB9FiEE6W4INB9YeKX6Qpi1TEn3nlTQogYFAmIFWsBfFIAAAAAALgAo aXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3BlbnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldEU5 NkUwODM0MUY1ODc4QTVGQTQyOThCNTRDNDlGNzlFNTREMEEyMDYACgkQTEn3nlTQ ogZn+RAAuGBw1okS/luTKRmqnpaxvPPi+xhkWcoc/UGV+JCtnU+XqxEEsE+kBP3Q XEL60Oml21ZeY6qeabGiH41c4Yy25v3sOo7g6VRtMGUxbDDUEQV9O/2oNm6bwW3x KQMog6T/W4yPGbEt30fyE279BjFJWP+ImZPKWHHnwgMRJV0LSvp/b5d/GmJsiUDi JVh/7dI8lSyPQBmrBlncbFRgp3qc4qKEa9lFGKT6IOh0k8anwKG00705fwxMAcYb XnMPHJD+9D6yzQwP/l0u/nFps8yrROb84cAeNwh+LSy1sJD7mUGipczv32VNDtMp ZeRk4C5Wxchz7vTrmXei2dheQ/z7ewDy5s4Q/4Ib6V2iDmMrKUa4KXJ7s7/B51JW tYRwgT7d4M3NSffEG2lfafqdA9fKwRz2jNQZbzSXWzWv/bX4od/PZ5+VZu8KIxR6 BQKty57gqnIXaF6AHRRn0+co44VE0La1e9E4xCBfmDwlguge7doaAcoN8UUEVpLc 9qNdP2+WiWgtbH+YWFE9WQp71qt+szNGaJbZKCDYp2zhVegjEvjzWbUuGUXnH6rT ZTIN+Bjv2UKsrdzQ7rvYJZVP8t+JXjUXH0OMCfpwpFQN9jLZQTRv6tApRR6jPNaE IQBoVexqkRL3l2yKHnrMOnEyUfn57tkbYI3LH0a4DV+ZQRZNRnQ= =GySw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5144781.tdWV9SEqCh--