From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 85605 invoked by alias); 25 Oct 2016 03:33:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 85588 invoked by uid 89); 25 Oct 2016 03:33:14 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=monthly, Extra, practicing, suspended X-HELO: mail-qk0-f175.google.com X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:organization :message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to :content-transfer-encoding; bh=GBkOk/yS6czDAsBziRyFlzo9YAuPtlUVcSCTAm71GYA=; b=dRN6tvYv8iv0xhwjsAHbXOyzL5qjS1ncrD/oh/lYmNIDQpJjTv2XoDlen5dlbCKlmD RzqO/CAQzZUywzVD4QF6XLjyEwGEs+UAfIQk1kaNEplLdkPywEtaZZv49fXeXei//hh5 yV556upEtpIRbx6Rn5iDW23wqdiqU1mlUzAEah7eLpTtNhzD8kTvmBTduaAbIiyu7Ded bZiJOpFjM6FyQVlY8rKVfpXz5Q4TjCGpt2cJaDf7b0Bo0h3CXl+gF7vzF2hrFicb/J68 ALlB68Zc0u5zoxwkR8YPb1r+5giO4cXHUwh+inELwWLXkOr0/LT1b8klFbIZMAJFVJj1 YqUQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ABUngvc4p7NCI5v2+vQd4LOjX8yWnbsozEZnWkjCpimuDd6SCkN6AL7vjfF5RFeO/pS9Fll7 X-Received: by 10.55.75.83 with SMTP id y80mr16091438qka.192.1477366382493; Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:33:02 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: GLIBC bug list on sourceware.org To: Siddhesh Poyarekar , Adhemerval Zanella , GNU C Library References: <23dfa41a-12ea-533d-19a4-b4a05554d4d6@gotplt.org> From: Carlos O'Donell Message-ID: Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 03:33:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <23dfa41a-12ea-533d-19a4-b4a05554d4d6@gotplt.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2016-10/txt/msg00409.txt.bz2 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.