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From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
To: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@gotplt.org>,
	Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>,
	GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: GLIBC bug list on sourceware.org
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 03:33:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f6ff8c08-c825-751a-3bde-cc140f774b95@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23dfa41a-12ea-533d-19a4-b4a05554d4d6@gotplt.org>

On 10/24/2016 10:27 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On Friday 21 October 2016 01:05 AM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
>> Another following idea is to also prioritize the bugs issues once the triage 
>> is done.
>>
>> Any thoughts, ideas, advices?
> 
> Carlos and I had talked about this in the past and we had agreed on
> using the release freeze time to try and bring the number of pending
> bugs down.  We could try and make that idea into a more formal process,
> by making the slushy freeze time an official thing and encourage devs to
> work on reducing the bug backlog in that time.
> 
> The trouble however is that very few contributors do glibc work full
> time and freezes are usually the time that they move on to do other
> things, unless they have pending patches or features that they care about.

We consciously choose a time-boxed release, and the consequence of that is
that we should be doing bug fixes in a continuous fashion.

I think we need some kind of weekly or monthly bug review which tries to
squash the bugs that have popped up.

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=SUSPENDED&bug_status=WAITING&bug_status=REOPENED&f1=creation_ts&list_id=32518&o1=greaterthan&product=glibc&query_format=advanced&v1=2016-10-17

Last week we had 4 new bugs.

20729 	glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
20728 	powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
20720 	ntfw with FTW_CHDIR and FTW_DEPTH can't back out of a tree properly giving ENOENT
20708 	Extra test failures with LD_BNID_NOW=1
20707 	gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS 

I'd focus on practicing a weekly triage of whatever was opened that week.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-25  3:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-20 19:36 Adhemerval Zanella
2016-10-24 19:48 ` Chris Leonard
2016-10-25  2:27 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-10-25  3:33   ` Carlos O'Donell [this message]
2016-10-30  4:01 ` Carlos O'Donell
2016-10-30  4:41   ` Andrew Pinski
2016-10-31  9:31     ` Carlos O'Donell

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