From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from esa1.mentor.iphmx.com (esa1.mentor.iphmx.com [68.232.129.153]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 538053858D1E for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2022 19:09:23 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org 538053858D1E Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=codesourcery.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=mentor.com IronPort-SDR: mCSv2XBvL0daT3QbA0bqRcmx/dK6O3/1G7Dk/S4RQNGiEdXZW1FD4D7ofOQhu9zCae/nhFgYkl LACse8LmszUxGfdGUodhHGtb33IKN4W5KxgIjhiG9sDwzzqHhBvMSnWL8lU8HVQBgvXZKErEHb Y/dIQcinadynJnM+wp4sosSNQI5jVU6Phmvn3ZSldg0OU3O2SUDnM08MgRIBce0RVRkZBXSO+i l9U/i80/68SRSejBe2LG2kjfKNnXahb1Guidite7Li84g/Mm0JzyWsGHm5QTbQYraMQt24dmKT 6Nv4lpZg+QtPpCV5uCt8ZyU4 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.88,359,1635235200"; d="scan'208";a="74400443" Received: from orw-gwy-02-in.mentorg.com ([192.94.38.167]) by esa1.mentor.iphmx.com with ESMTP; 10 Feb 2022 11:09:21 -0800 IronPort-SDR: ulJjEB83U0YpSqsijDax/rnAeQcJpro560/RKwC9VBjGlKocXnx9knXgMsQv7RWgk7x4I9lWzU WbWNOxY/FdNx7Y6Vz9uNL8FrqRkfR7uPO68SlbbqJmAzswzzT7ujpkPGR2zHVVTwuEzWjUqWr6 NO4hSSPwUQ4GqocerBkty49YtlFrz2feLyh/XE6CEcRpFmoujrr1Yk1t5niTf0REkKAnBzVnno bqAv5CbdTnS1Dx90a9dh+R+8ITsZ+YUa7G9Kpo5T+FN4OIEwLh+yZPbVNimHStB8j6xI0Z6URa +9U= Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 19:09:16 +0000 From: Joseph Myers X-X-Sender: jsm28@digraph.polyomino.org.uk To: "Andreas K. Huettel" CC: libc-alpha Subject: Re: Retrospective on glibc 2.34 and glibc 2.35 release. In-Reply-To: <8024838.GXAFRqVoOG@pinacolada> Message-ID: References: <8024838.GXAFRqVoOG@pinacolada> User-Agent: Alpine 2.22 (DEB 394 2020-01-19) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Originating-IP: [137.202.0.90] X-ClientProxiedBy: svr-ies-mbx-05.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.5) To svr-ies-mbx-01.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.1) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3114.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_PASS, TXREP, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=no 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 19:09:24 -0000 On Thu, 10 Feb 2022, Andreas K. Huettel via Libc-alpha wrote: > * 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. The use of such a tarball is marginal - there's already supposed to be one at the start of the freeze for submission to the Translation Project. The main thing is having a (long enough) proper freeze after which there are no major architecture-independent changes (ABI or otherwise) other than reverting the addition of any new features that have proved problematic at a late stage. -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com